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The Blood Money and the Field

Some reflections this Easter on these verses from the crucifixion story. Mattthew 27:6-7 But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “it is not lawful to put them

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Prepared

This is part three in my Called?! series of blog posts. Click for parts one and two. Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was

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Persuaded

So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”  He said to them, “It is not for you to

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Mission and the Wind

We’ve just spent a week in a Central Asian city famously known as “the windy city” (let the reader understand!) – and it really has been very blustery. Shutter-bangingly, tree-bendingly,

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Sea of Galilee: Part 1

People of the Middle East love word plays. We use rhyming phrases all the time, for example: Kul Franji Branji = which means “Everyone foreign is exciting.” Late night conversations

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The good shepherd

One of our friends in the Middle East was in the mountains last week and bumped into a shepherd. They had a chat about the Parable of the Good Shepherd

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Moses: Envy

This is part four of a series of blog posts on Moses. “And I will give this people favour in the eye of the Egyptians; and when you go, you

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Moses: The Staff

This is part 3 in a series of posts on Moses. The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”  Exodus 4:2 The shepherd’s

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Moses: The Stranger

“And he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.” Exodus 2:22 Gershom’s name comes from the 3-letter verbal root in Hebrew

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Moses: The Slow Movement

Having fled Egypt and stumbled into a new life in Midian, Moses enters what Rabbi Jonathan Sacks calls “the slow movement of the symphony of his life,” as a wilderness

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