• Sermon preached on 1 September 2013

    Quite often, Jesus talks about things that I don’t know much about. A man may have gone out to sow – but I know precious little about agriculture. A father may have said goodbye to a prodigal son but I know nothing about having a jealous brother. A young man may have been told not to look back from the plough – but my soft hands, have clearly never touched a plough in their life.

    However in the Gospel today, Jesus does stray into an area where I know a thing or two.

    He is talking about (more…)

2 responses to “Pics”

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    Kelvin

    Re: Pics
    It was good. I  knew it was good.   Others knew it was good.  You knew it was good.  Therefore there was no need to comment.
    This does not mean that the good goes unnoticed.  I now know that you are good but it did not take a pictorial image to tell me so.

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    Anonymous

    Re: Pics
    Yes, Michael Hare-Duke really didn't like it. See – http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=1409042003 

    I think that his point that we should not be dressing Jesus up in a Santa outfit was rather impeded by his being pictured dressed as a pantomime bishop.

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