July 5th - 5th after Pentecost Readings: Psalm 145: 8-14 and Matthew 11: 16-30  When we read through a gospel, and our Sunday readings don’t include all the gospel – hopefully you are reading the bits in-between as we go along – we realise there is the teaching of...

June 28th 4th after Pentecost Readings: Psalm 89: 1-4, 15-18 and Matthew 10: 40-42  Today’s gospel passage is short and at first, seems quite simple to understand. Jesus says that we should welcome the person who comes in Jesus’ name; probably this refers to wandering...

June 21st – 3rd after Pentecost Readings: Psalm 86: 1-10 and Matthew 10: 24-39  Now here is a difficult section of Jesus’ teaching. One thing we need to understand is that the Jewish teachers often used exaggeration to make a point; they took an idea and made it...