📖 Passover 1. The last week in the context of Jesus' life and deepening and maturing relat
with his Abba, Father during the first 30 years, and how that shaped the way he would fulfill his role as Messiah. There are also details of
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Passover 2🎧(48 mins) + 📖: Did the loving God demand the sacrifice of his Son?
After exploring and explaining the differences between the Gospel accounts of the death of Jesus, Tom outlines how, over the decades
📖 Passover 3. Last Supper and into Gethsemane
Jesus was celebrating the Passover feast with his close disciples on Maundy Thursday and it’s worth just pondering for a moment what the...
📖 Passover 4. The trials of Jesus: Sanhedrin and Pilate
We were with Jesus as he came out of the garden. ‘Who is it you are looking for?’ ‘I Am He’. * * * * They would then have led...
📖 Passover 5. The Crucifixion; what was said to and by Jesus
Some general facts about crucifixion and then we’ll look mainly at Mark’s account and John’s account. Forgive me if I’m absolutely up...
🎧(44 mins)The origins of Advent
Tom traces the history of the Season of Advent and why we celebrate the Feast of the Incarnation at Christmas before introducing the...
Mark Chpt. 11: When Jesus enters Jerusalem (and Christian Zionism)🎧(54 mins)
The scriptural and social background Tom explores shows how subversive Jesus was. St. Mark’s careful structuring of the entry into...
Embracing the Way 🎧(1hr. 2 mins)
The apostles’ reaction to Jesus’ insistence that he must go to Jerusalem to die showed that the way of the cross was the opposite in all...
🎧(48 mins)Sunday Readings, Receiving the Word
In the first half, Tom explains the three year cycle of readings on Sunday and the choice of passages to be included was the result of...
🎧(53 mins)The Gospel of Matthew
Introduction to Matthew – Gospel Origins Kingdom Sermon on the Mount Beatitudes But I say to you... Pray... fast... give End Times
🎧(46mins) 'I am Risen...'
Understanding the way the Risen Jesus is present and how this presence changes things.
🎧(45 mins) "... and with you"
How is the resurrected Jesus different from the person before death?
🎧7 talks,Scriptural insights into Holy Week's events and characters.
The Last Supper The Garden of Gethsemene I The Garden of Gethsemene II Arrest Trials – Jewish Trials – Roman Holy Week
📖(8 min read) The Beloved Disciple
A ‘fictitious letter’ written by the ‘Beloved Disciple’, using imagination to lead us through the real events of Holy Week, and inviting...
🎧(52 mins)Passover of Jesus:
An examination of how treating the cross in isolation from Jesus' life and Resurrection often leads to a misunderstanding of why he died...
🎧(48 mins) + 📖(transcript) Passover 2: Did the loving God demand the sacrifice of his Son?
2921 words After exploring and explaining the differences between the Gospel accounts of the death of Jesus, Tom outlines how, over the...
🎧(46 mins)+ 📖(transcript) – Passover of Jesus 4: Trials
Talk given in Bootle, 2009 4720words Details of the timetable and technicalities of the trial before the Sanhedrin, with a detailed...
📖(2 min read) Holy Thursday. A meditation
Word count: 365 This is a short meditation, in the voice of a contemporary disciple, on the significance of the Last Supper within the...
📖(2 min read) HOMILY ON JOHN 4:1-26. on 30th Birthday of Ince Benet.
A brief reflection on the Samaritan woman at the well about our inner-thirst reflecting the prior thirst of God for us and saying YES to...
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