Last Sunday we celebrated baptism.
Two people, who in different ways and with different stories have discovered the Treasure that is Jesus.
(Or maybe it’s the Treasure that has discovered them).
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Last night we had small group.
And we finished with lectio -
or at least our version of it!
I love the dynamic of God speaking through His Spirit,
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Yesterday, Lent began.
An invitation to join with Christians around the world and throughout church history, and make the six-week journey again towards the cross…
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So there’s this beautiful little story in Luke 8:40ff.
You probably know it. It’s about a woman who has suffered bleeding for 12 years. Physically debilitating; ceremonially unclean….she would have existed on the fringes of society.
And then one day Jesus comes to town.
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So there’s a verse in Galatians that caused me to stop and think this morning.
It’s Galatians 4:4.
“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law…”
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He had no idea what the day held.
He knew it was the turn of his division of priests to serve at the temple in Jerusalem.
For 2 weeks every year that’s what he did.
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Some of you will know that as a church we benefitted from 5 years of funding from the JW Laing Trust. It’s part of our story of God’s wonderful provision for us as a church…
In short…
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Saul hid.
In and amongst a pile of sacks and supplies.
About to be publicly announced as Israel’s first king, he hid.
Afraid.
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I’m sitting, drinking a coffee, thinking about my talk for Sunday, and just had my eyes opened to a beautiful moment in John 21.
I love it when that happens.
Particularly when it’s something in a familiar passage that you’d never spotted before.
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Ordinary.
Adjective: with no special or distinctive features; normal.
Ordinary people.
That’s always been part of our heart-beat at Neighbourhood.
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Take the lane that leads south-west out of Pooley Bridge, on the northern tip of Ullswater, and you find yourself driving down a narrow, stone-wall lined road, that winds its way towards Martindale.
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