[Journey with Jesus - Day 13] HOST: Well, good evening everyone, and welcome to this week’s edition of “On the Couch”, the show where we offer different views on all the latest news. Up in Galilee there’s been quite a stir caused by itinerant preacher and healer, Jesus of Nazareth - you may not think … Continue reading On The Couch with Jairus and Susanna
Author: revandym
I'm a vicar of a wonderful church in Coventry. I have a passion for writing and creating. As part of my job I have the amazing job of telling people all about Jesus and God's love for them. One of my favourite ways of doing that is by imagining what it was like to be there and meet Jesus face to face.
Back to the Start – reflections on the Big Church Festival
Last month I had the privilege of taking my elder daughters to the Big Church Festival on a beautiful country estate somewhere down south. We’d been as a family 7 years ago (when we were a family of 4) but this was the first time since then and also my first time going somewhere solo … Continue reading Back to the Start – reflections on the Big Church Festival
Jesus and the herd of pigs
Do you remember I told you about how Jesus calmed the raging winds and waves with just a word? Well, what happened next was, if that’s possible, even more amazing – it was certainly weirder! We crossed over the side of the lake and landed on the shore in what we knew to be a … Continue reading Jesus and the herd of pigs
Jesus calms the storm
[Journey with Jesus - Day 13] As I mentioned before, I’m a fisherman. Well, I was, anyway. I knew the waters of Galilee like the back of my hand. I’d fished in it when it was still and when the waters were raging. I was used to storms. But one time out on the water … Continue reading Jesus calms the storm
A scandalous anointing – Simon’s Story
[Journey with Jesus - Day 11] Jesus was a maverick, if you ask me, liked to do things differently and stir things up, not least because of the dubious company he seemed to keep. He hung out with all the wrong people – prostitutes, lepers, tax collectors – he scraped the bottom of the barrel … Continue reading A scandalous anointing – Simon’s Story
John the Baptist – The prison of doubt.
[Journey with Jesus - Day 11] The prison cell was so dark and small. I’d been used to the vast and bright wilderness, to being free to roam. Now, I was a prisoner. I’d been used to crowds following me, hanging on my every word. Now, I was utterly alone. I’d been used to being … Continue reading John the Baptist – The prison of doubt.
The widow at Nain
[Journey with Jesus - Day 10] Life had never been easy, but rather, full of grief. I had cried many tears - the first when my poor baby girl died in infancy; a few years later, it was eldest son who was taken away by a fever when he was just a boy. His brother … Continue reading The widow at Nain
A servant’s healing
[Journey with Jesus - Day 10] I am a centurion in the regiment in Capernaum. I am responsible, along with the hundred soldiers in my charge, for keeping the peace in this part of Galilee. Capernaum is a key town in the region. Lots of traders pass through, so the locals do a lot of … Continue reading A servant’s healing
The upside-down kingdom
[Journey with Jesus - Days 9 and 10] Have you ever considered just how radical Jesus’s teaching in the “sermon on the plain” in Luke 6 is? I wrote an alternative version of it, turning Jesus’s teaching upside down. Afterwards it struck me just how near to the bone this is in describing the values … Continue reading The upside-down kingdom
Chosen
[Journey with Jesus - Day 8] I was never the brightest, not even in my family - Andrew had that distinction. No, I was the mouthy one who had the gift of the gab. Sometimes it was a gift when it came to bartering and getting the best money for our catches of fish, but … Continue reading Chosen
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