This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: LIGHTS GOING OUT ON VENEZUELAN LEADER? Matthew 21:12-22 New English Translation (NET) Cleansing the Temple 12 Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: FRENCH POLICE USE TEAR-GAS ON ROMA CHILDREN Matthew 21:1-11 New English Translation (NET) The Triumphal Entry 21 Now when they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 telling them, “Go […]
Amos 1-2:8 This is a great start to Advent; in place of consumer advent calendars and tatty street lights, here the “Lord comes roaring out of Zion!” And just in case Amos’s audience thinks God is on their side, he constructs a cunning trap. In God’s name he denounces the injustices and crimes against humanity […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Berlusconi goes at last, farewell to the Great Pretender Matthew 20: 17-28 Third Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection 17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside privately and said to them […]
My New Blog, “I Might be wrong” is at: <I might be wrong emmmock2.com> This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: PORTUGUESE PROTEST AGAINST AUSTERITY Matthew 20:1-16 New English Translation (NET) Workers in the Vineyard 20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Scottish Government sets out plan for Independence Matthew 19:23-30 New English Translation (NET) 23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Unfettered capitalism is tyranny-Pope Francis Matthew 19:13-22 New English Translation (NET) Jesus and Little Children 13 Then little children were brought to him for him to lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples scolded those […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: New President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez Questions About Divorce 19 Now when Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River. 2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Nuclear Deal with Iran signals a new era: The Parable of the Ten Minas 11 While the people were listening to these things, Jesus proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: PHOTOS BANNED IN S.A. OF ZUMA’S £12m HOUSE! Matthew 18:10-20 New English Translation (NET) The Parable of the Lost Sheep 10 “See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their […]
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