...Old Testament I have never come across it. We are a long way from ‘gentle Jesus’ here: these 3 chapters are littered with scorn, anger, invective, gloating at the defeat...
...Bray in the accounts of the Clerk of Works. This record of expenditure for the year 1688 shows that alongside routine payments made for cleaning the Chapter House, coal for...
...from Acts chapter 2. However, among the other important passages is what we heard from the gospel of John: Jesus said, ‘When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to...
...chapter 4; and also right through to the encounter with Pontius Pilate in chapter 18. But the Baptist, who fades from the scene in this gospel after chapter 1, is...
...the output of Paul. However, its emphasis in chapter 11 into chapter 12 on faith as the virtue which binds people together within God’s story is straight out of Paul’s...
...further demonstrated by Jesus as he sets off to the house and is surprised by the woman touching his cloak. Now I suppose he could have continued on his way...
...leave. 12As you enter the house, greet it. 13If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to...
...the sower in chapter 4 and the parable of the vineyard in chapter 12. Today’s tale from chapter 10 stands as a middle term between these two stories. It looks...
3.3.2024 Third Sunday in Lent 8.00 a.m. A sermon preached by Canon Nigel Davies, Vicar of the Close. “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a...