The Word Around The Bush

Lent 3 – Distractions – Exodus 20:1-17 and John 2:13-22

There are times we distance ourselves from God by doing 'religious' things. When Jesus cleanses the Temple, it may be that these religious things stopped

Lent 2 – Taking up the Cross – Mark 8: 31-38

As we come to the second week of Lent we are drawing into the rebuke of Peter and Jesus' upside-down call to take up the

Lent 1 – Widening the wilderness Mark 1:9-15

Mark's breathless account of Jesus's baptism, testing, and the beginning of his public ministry ushers us into the sacred season of Lent with the invitation

Transfiguration – Mark 9: 2-9

We come to Transfiguration Sunday in the church year and this year we hear from the Gospel of Mark.  How can this passage be a