Mark 5:21-43 This Sunday the lectionary offers us two stories which have been woven together: the woman with the haemorrhage and Jairus’ daughter. Both are stories of risk. Both are stories of faith. Both tell us something about how Jesus comes to save us. Last week we saw Jesus ‘save’ his disciples from a storm …
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Birthday of John the Baptist
Luke 1:57-66,80 What will this child turn out to be? I have always loved this line from Luke’s account of the Birth of John the Baptist. The reader knows just who he will turn out to be. And yet, I am always caught up in a feeling of expectancy and possibilities. An earlier line in …