We love lists. We love to see where we fit when we have answered a list of questions. Bring these two things together and we might have a problem with Colossians 3:1-11, the epistle lesson for today. Paul provides a list of behaviours that we should not engage in and there is an all too […]
One law is enough
This Sunday we talked about laws and law. There is something fundamentally human about the need to make laws or rules and something equally fundamentally human about trying to circumvent those laws or rules. I wonder if this second tendency is the source of Paul’s observation in Romans 5:20 “But law came in, with the […]
How should we behave?
This is a week to preach about behaviour. I would have used our Old Testament lesson but the story of David and Absalom is just too depressing to look at so instead we dove into Ephesians. This portion of Ephesians is one of the places that St. Paul tells us some of the behavioural characteristics […]