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Advent 2009, Week One, Day 5
Harry Markopolos was a fraud investigator. When he saw the way Bernard Madoff had been using ‘Ponzi’ schemes to defraud investors, he reported his concerns with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This was in 1999. No action was taken until … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week One, Day Three
Inscribed on all US currency is the motto ‘In God We Trust’. It first appeared in 1864, and then only on coins. Not all American citizens were happy with it. Some saw it as incompatible with the separation of church … Continue reading →
Advent 2009 Week One Day Two
The prophets did not just speak. They also acted. Sometimes purely symbolically. Sometimes with a practical purpose. Faced with the imminent fall of Jerusalem, Jeremiah made a move that sent out a message of hope for the people of his … Continue reading →
Advent 2009, Week One, Day One
Advent 2009 – A World In Waiting Week One – A New Jerusalem Day One – A Vision ‘A great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity’. That was the epithet hurled at Goldman Sachs, the world’s … Continue reading →
A World In Waiting Advent I
Advent 2009 Week One Advent is the season when we contemplate the establishment of God’s Kingdom among us. It begins with judgment, much like our own spiritual pilgrimage that is initiated in a sense of inadequacy and brokenness. … Continue reading →
Mark’s Jesus, a man of action.
Thy Kingdom Come, On Earth For the past year when the Gospel Reading has been our focus in Worship, the Gospel to which we have turned has been that of Mark. Biblical critics regard the Gospel of Mark as … Continue reading →
Hannah rose
Last week our story was about a widow the contents of whose pitifully poor pocketbook could not support her. This week our story is about a woman who had every material thing wealth could provide. She was married to a … Continue reading →
The Widow’s Mites
Two days before the events of our text today, Jesus had entered the city of Jerusalem. He went to the Temple, looked the place over, then left for Bethany, about two miles away. The next day he came back and … Continue reading →
Fringes
As did all Jewish men of his day, Jesus wore fringes on his garments. It was the fringes that the woman touched to gain healing in the Matthew story and Mark mentions in his third chapter people reaching out to … Continue reading →
Take heart, get up, he is calling you
For those of us who see ourselves involved in continuing Jesus’ work in the world, we can take from this simple bible story how it was the followers of Jesus who turned to the once rejected human being to say … Continue reading →
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