Introducing the Jesse Blog

This year for advent, we will be turning the blog into an online Jesse Tree…and you get to be part of decorating of it! The idea of a Jesse Tree is to add one decoration for each day of Advent, with the decorations bearing symbols that relate to characters or events from the Bible, so

‘The Least of These’

On Sunday night we will be talking about building church for ‘the least of these’. I must confess that expression taken in isolation causes me a degree of discomfort, with its suggestion of value judgement, hence my very intentional use of quotation marks, but it does of course have scriptural precedent. In Matthew 25:34-46, Jesus

In Case Of Apocalypse, Please Remain Calm

It will be good to reflect on our weekend away at some point, but first here is the blog I intended to write last week, but didn’t because I couldn’t find the passage of scripture that had inspired it. On November 8th, the circus (or should that be horror show?) that has been the US elections