25th September 2022 Year C – Pentecost 16 “You Can’t Take it with You”
What to do with a car door!
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What to do with a car door!
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Jesus’ healing on the Sabbath, challenges us to rethink rest, compassion, and justice. In a world obsessed with productivity, it is a timely reminder that true value isn’t earned—it’s inherent.
We are inspired to rest, to care more deeply, and to see how ancient wisdom speaks powerfully into modern life.
Many passages were specifically written for a time, place and particular group of people.
We must not hastily translate the literal understanding into our present time.
Looking at the metaphorical meaning we can decipher what God’s desire for us is for the present day.
His desire here is to witness to the goodness and love of God – words of comfort for those in their own apocalypse!
Peter must have felt strange when he had been a fisherman all his life and Jesus a carpenter , tells him how to catch fish!
Go out deeper!
When we feel discouraged and in need of ‘catching fish’ Jesus calls us to listen to him and he will take us into deeper waters, to form honest Christ centered relationships when people will encounter God – and Grace – in a safe place. Jesus will teach us how to ‘fish with people’.
Being women, Mary and Elizabeth would have not been more than ‘homemakers’ in the culture of that day.
Mary sang a song which presented a new set of values – she was referring to what Jesus would do in His later Ministry.
In 2024 out culture still thinks of Christmas as being a story about a baby – not about Jesus, who God is and who you and I are invited to be – this is what Mary sang about.
As Jesus wandered the dusty roads connecting with people he showed his true humanness.
Then an another event happens and and Christ’s Divinity and his path to Jerusalem looms before everyone.
Fully human and fully divine as required in all its depth, for what the cross and tomb will demand.
Rev Jon Humphries explores the striking contrast between the gentle, image of Jesus we learned as children and the, challenging Jesus revealed in the Gospel.
We are invited to wrestle with a deeper, more dynamic understanding of who Jesus is—and what it means for us to truly follow Him.