Today Jesus heals a man with a crippled hand, prompting a discussion of whether it is right to heal on the Sabbath.  Our second story details crowds of people coming to Jesus begging him to allow them to touch him.

I have started listening to the bible podcast on my ipod on the train. So far I find it pretty good - the American accent is a little off-putting, but the readings are nicely dramatised and have music and other sounds to add to the passage. The first creation story in genesis for […]

Over at Waving or Drowning (great blog by the way!), Mike has posted up some thoughts of his friend Robert. Mike does not agree with the thoughts entirely but they do provide some reason for thinking about the way the canon of the bible was put together.

“I’ve been reading The da Vinci Code and you […]

The Australian newspaper had this article in it last week. A reader of signposts emailed it to me.

“THE hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.
The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their 5 million worshippers, […]

This is a great story about Jesus healing a demon-possessed man and sending the demons into a herd of pigs. I won’t quote anything because you should go and read it.

Good article about the interaction of religion and science:
And the LORD God spoke unto Moses, “Write this: 16.3 billion years ago, I set the gravitational constant at 6.673 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2. Then I inserted an infinitely compressed drop of energy into a multidimensional time space continuum to make a Big Bang - Moses, why […]

And thank you to one of our readers - Michael, who is also from nccc but spending a year in the US for sending me this interesting newspaper article.
Girls’ fashion bible gets religion
BY RACHEL ZOLL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sep 7, 2004
NEW YORK Faiza worships five times a day, while Rhianna is as likely to believe in God […]

Another adapted reading from the elective by Merril Kitchen on reading the bible missionally. The other reading can be found here.
Jesus went back to his home town in the bush one day and fronted up at his old church. He did the bible reading that day and read from Isaiah,
“The Spirit of the Lord is […]

At the recent conference I attended with Alan Roxburgh as the guest speaker. I went to an elective run by Merril Kitchen who is the Principal at our theological college. The elective was called - ‘reading the Gospel’s missionally’. It was very worthwhile and I will post up a few more reflections about it soon.
A […]