16 January 2024
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I spoke on Sunday (and again, for our Tuesday morning service) on the second half of Matthew chapter 2. This is the end of Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus and covers the need for his family to flee … Continue reading
7 January 2019
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Epiphany is past, Christmas decorations should traditionally be down and I’m just going to squeeze in one more of the sketches I did over the holidays: During the Christingle service at St Clement’s, the children were led in an impromptu … Continue reading
13 December 2018
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One of my tasks this week has been cutting together the church nativity. For the past few years, we’ve taken to doing this using video rather than trying to stage a live production – less time required for rehearsal, no … Continue reading
4 December 2017
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Tonight I have been working on cutting together footage from filming the Junior and Youth Church groups at St Clement’s did yesterday afternoon. As you might have guessed from my post title, it is a Nativity play. I couldn’t help … Continue reading
24 December 2016
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Following on from yesterday’s post about harmonising the two biblical accounts of the Nativity (Matthew 1-2; Luke 1-2), here is my diagram of the two stories side by side: The two stories are actually quite different. A simple way to … Continue reading
23 December 2016
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You probably know that the Nativity story is the account of the birth of Jesus Christ. You might recognise that the word comes from the Latin natus and, certainly in Britain, you probably came across it as the basis of … Continue reading
2 June 2015
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Virgin birth was in the news today. No, not that one (we’re about as far through the year from Christmas as you can get) but wild sawfish populations in Florida. Naturally occuring parthenogenesis doesn’t explain, nor explain away, the Christian … Continue reading
2 October 2013
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At last night’s session of the Understanding Christian Doctrine course I’m doing this term the take-home thought for me was a new lens to read the gospel stories; which of them were public events, with many witnesses, and which were … Continue reading
21 December 2010
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Jane and I went to Headington Baptist Church last night to see Riding Lights perform Nearly the Goat, a wonderfully contrived version of the nativity story in which the eponymous goat, Nearly, takes a starring role. The production only features … Continue reading