Tag: trinity

Expect to be the object of virtue signalling [John 8]

Posted on By pukeko
Hat tip to Vox Popoli, who found this travesty of a race car. (I used to support Holden: this is a failed cause as the company is closing. I now support the Kiwi Racers in V8, and I don't care what they are driving) My Dad used to tell me,… Read More

The Blood of Christ, not the blood of the tribe [I Jn 5]

Posted on By Chris Gale
The normal service of the lectionary has been resumed. We have a passage that requires more coffee, for thinking my way through this makes my head hurt. Yet it is important: for within it are a few promises those of faith stake their life on. That… Read More

How to confront and alienate.

Posted on By pukeko
Last night I found a bit of sarcastic prose that can do quite well as an example of how to write offensively. But today the most difficult part of the lectionary is below. Jesus is being completely blunt and (to Jewish eyes) heretical. He is saying… Read More

The cost of discipleship is becoming more obvious.

Posted on By pukeko
On Sundays (which was yesterd here) I look at both the daily lectionary and the Sunday readings. I did not put up John 1:1 which was on the list for the day, as it was not the text that was discussed at church, and to keep the post under 2000 words.… Read More

Son talks: Barking madness and the trinity.

Posted on By pukeko
Oh dear. It has been one of these mornings. Son one has asked two important questions -- what is social democracy and how does it differ from communism. Part of it is easy -- socialists and communists confiscate the means of production and over… Read More