To follow Jesus is to learn to see again, to allow God’s light to touch our illusions and revolutionise them. The light that healed one man still moves through the world, challenging us to live as people who refuse to look away … [To read more, click on title]
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Rabbi, I want to see …
… there is blindness in our own lives, behaviours we want to cling on to. It can be hard to face but in our deepest hearts we know that they separate us from God and need to be cast off, like Bartimaeus’s cloak, so that we too can lead a full life as followers on the Way … [To read more, click on title]
What’s Outside Your Gate?
Admit it: society thinks of the well-to-do as ‘somebody’, treating them with respect and honour, while we treat the destitute with scorn and judgment. We think of them as a ‘nobody’.
In Jesus’s story of a rich man and a poor man notice how he reverses that. The rich man is not named; other than his riches he’s nobody in particular. But the poor man is somebody. He has a name: Lazarus … [To read more, click on the title]
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