In the Magazine this month we’re exploring story-telling and the ways we craft the narratives that give meaning to our lives. In this piece Maria Evans reflects on the power of storytelling as the primary means of making Christ known in the world.
Some in the crowd now wonder if they haven’t been following a madman rather than a prophet, a healer, a miracle-worker. Just like that, his sayings HAVE proven too hard for some of his followers.
John 6:35, 41-51 This gospel reminds us of a good thing we can never get enough of… the endless feast of love that is life
John 6: 1-21 In a world starving for fulfilment, Jesus sets a table of love every day. Yet the bread of life is passed over
Mark 6: 30-34, 53-56 Picture this: It’s February 1964. Traffic in Mid-town Manhattan is an epic nightmare. Police are manning the barricades. And an army
Mark 5:25-34 In the first century there was a woman in Jerusalem named Berenice. She had a hemorrhage of blood, probably what we call menorrhagia. Mennorrhagia
Mark 6: 14-29 Why does Mark interrupt his revelation of the divinity of Jesus to relate in detail the evil doings of the Herod clan?
Let’s also learn from how Jesus handles rejection. It doesn’t ruin his day. It doesn’t put him into an inert funk. It energizes him. He accepts it as a challenge and he passes that challenge on to us.
As we walk by faith, not by sight, we may feel that we have been set down in desolate spots at times. Then the morning comes, and we behold the wonders of heaven, right beneath our feet.
If we live to return God’s love, he will surely bring the growth and the greatness… not the single season kind, but the eternal kind… blooming in God’s perennial garden, watered by the saving blood of Christ.