Category: Reflecting on scripture

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Diocesan courses at St George’s, Broad Oak

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Over the last few years we have run a number of Diocesan courses at St.George’s – one of the locations in the East of the Diocese. Courses have included the year through Following Jesus course in 2012-13, two shorter Developing Discipleship courses: The little way of St Therese of Lisieux and From desert to cloister in 2014, and the first new Engaging Christianity course: Responding to Religious Diversity in Autumn 2014.     Now a further Engaging Christianity course is released and we will be first to offer this in the Diocese: Engaging with Christian Spirituality. This is the first of … Continue reading Diocesan courses at St George’s, Broad Oak

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Matthew 27: 9-10

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Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.” Math.27. 9-10. RSV No-one writes without a purpose. And Matthew is no exception here. Of all the Gospel writers, he makes the most effort to link the life of Jesus with the scriptures known to contemporary Jewish Christians. In these two verses we find a link to the words … Continue reading Matthew 27: 9-10