Luke 11. Learning to pray. God has our back.
Our PNG members who worship with us get the village parables that Jesus told in ways that we don’t. We hear the story about the man who gets an unexpected midnight visitor and then goes and asks his neighbour for bread because he doesn’t have any; and we think, “Of...
Jesus Christ makes visible the invisible God. Colossians 1:15-28
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation (Col 1:15). Jesus the Christ. Christ (literally the ‘anointed one’) has always been the Son of the Father. He has always been part of the very fabric of creation, because everything was made through...
The Good Samaritan
This is such a well-known story. The despised Samaritan is the only one who actually helps the victim. The modern version might have the helper as a recent refugee, or someone on social security with lots of tattoos. The Jewish audience would have been impressed by a...
