Jesus-follower, lawyer, and leader at Glasgow Vineyard. Husband to the brilliant @roxy76599016 father to three wonderful kids. Usually happy, often tired.
Pregnancy looms large in Luke 1, which contains not one but two birth narratives in it.
Why?
Because at Advent, God invites us to consider whether the darkness that feels so much like a tomb, might actually be a womb.
"800 years ago, an Ethiopian king ordered a new capital for Christians. At 8,000 feet, on the central plateau of Ethiopia stand 11 churches, each carved from a single, gigantic, block of stone." #GlobalFaith
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“The way things seem in the moment is not always how things will be seen in the end. The disciples mourned Jesus being killed by the Romans rather than overthrowing them. In that very moment Jesus was overthrowing not just Rome but death itself”.
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As we commemorate Christ’s death & resurrection, let’s remember that the Easter story is fundamentally about an innocent man facing persecution & death for his faith.
“When we’re at our best we can be tempted to forget our poverty before the throne. But when we stumble into Easter, like I am this year, we find ourselves praying a prayer which has the explicit approval of our Lord: have mercy on me”. https://t.co/v0f0UImkNi
Hey Twitter. I often wonder why I’m on this platform, or indeed any. Partly I think so I can occasionally put something like this out there. So since it’s Easter, here’s a post if anyone’s clickin’! https://t.co/v0f0UImkNi
@DavidACBennett This just sent me down a rabbit hole… I had not realised there was a reasonably well established date for the crucifixion! Fascinating stuff.