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Don’t give up on Hebrews! |
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Neil Richardson prepares us for some autumn lectionary readings
You don’t have to be an academic theologian to preach from Hebrews. In fact, no book of the Bible can ever be the preserve of the few, since the Scriptures are given to us all.
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Worship and sermon preparation by Phil Hoar
It was one of those almost throw-away remarks, made by an ecumenical colleague in a hospital chaplaincy team, which made me think. I’d mentioned I was struggling with the Sunday lectionary readings. The speaker, a very down to earth Catholic sister, commented, “Well, just remember that you need twenty minutes of prayer for every one minute of your homily, and you should be all right!”
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A Challenge to Discipleship
by Morna Hooker
Who was the author we know as ‘St Mark’ and what led him to write the first ‘Gospel’? Was he the ‘Mark’ mentioned in Acts? Tradition – how reliable we do not know – says that he was the ‘interpreter’ of St Peter. What we do know is that he was a first-century Christian who fervently desired to share his faith with others.
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Edward Ball reflects on ‘The Law’
There’s a well-known story, often heard in Christian preaching, that goes something like this:
By the time of Jesus, the Jewish people had become enslaved to their law as a mass of nit-picking regulations (especially as taught and enforced by the self-righteous, hypocritical Pharisees). This imposed a terrible and oppressive burden on their lives; but they had to accept it, because they believed that by obeying these laws down to their last detail they could earn God’s favour. It was the way of earning salvation.
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Isaiah: Buy one, get two free |
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Most of us usually jump at – or fall for – the ‘Buy One, Get One Free’ offer, but what sort of bargain are we talking about when it is ‘Buy One, Get Two Free’? This, as seasoned readers of Ichthus will have divined already is not about toothpaste, teas or tonics, but rather about the book of Isaiah. My first teacher of Hebrew and Old Testament, Clive Thexton of Methodism’s erstwhile Richmond College, began his Epworth Preacher’s Commentary of 1959, Isaiah Chapters 40-66, with the words, ‘The Book of Isaiah – like Caesar’s Gaul – is commonly divided into three parts’, and went on to say something about them, chapters 1-39, 40-55 and 56-66.
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