The Word Around The Bush

Lent 3: God’s Temple; God’s Body- John 2:13-22

God surprises us and at times shocks us, unsettling our certainties and driving out our need to control. Freeing us to be the body and

Lent 2: Letting God be God. Mark 8:27-38.

Maybe part of what it means to deny ourselves is denying our need to tell God how to behave. Letting God be God.

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

As we begin Lent, the 40 days before Easter, we ponder the brief account from Mark's Gospel of Jesus entering into the wilderness.  It is

Transfiguration Mark 9: 2-9

Jesus, Peter, James and John are drawn up a mountain where they encounter the divine. Jesus is transformed in a brilliant light and we hear