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I had a good day Saturday, starting early, getting and all day ticket, and riding around on Manchester’s trams. Good to see and hear how there’s a different ‘feel’ in different parts of the city. I do like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next Sunday’s lectionary is here<\/a>.
The Isaiah passage seems to echo last week’s from Micah. That bit of Isaiah is said to be about the time after exile – the people need to learn to live with integrity. But their corporate life seems to be dis-integrated – they worship avidly, but treat one another like dirt. This will not do. “58:6 Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? 58:7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?”<\/em> … For ‘your own kin’ here, my belief is that with the coming of Jesus the people of God is not defined by a gene but by a meme – the good news of God’s love in Jesus. To me, my ‘kin’ is at least everyone who follows Christ, and probably much wider than that, too, everyone whom God loves, I must love too.
In Matthew, what caught my eye was this, Jesus says … “…5:20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”<\/em> How high is that setting the bar? Look at the what precedes it, and the answer is probably ‘very high’. But being a Christian is partly about learning to live with the fact that we don’t always do right, and stand in constant need of forgiveness – and not just from God, but also from our nearest and dearest, and from people far away and from those whose pain we do nothing about even though we can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the news last week<\/em><\/strong>, here’s a statement from Nike made before the recent stuff about running shoes that confer an unfair advantage … “\u201cWe respect the IAAF and the spirit of their rules, and we do not create any running shoes that return more energy than the runner expends,\u201d a spokesperson said before the change.”<\/em> Well, I’m glad to know that Nike respects the laws of thermodynamics. We wouldn’t want them to be creating any perpetual motion machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a good day Saturday, starting early, getting and all day ticket, and riding around on Manchester’s trams. Good to see and hear how there’s a different ‘feel’ in different parts of the city. I do like it. Next Sunday’s lectionary is here.The Isaiah passage seems to echo last week’s from Micah. That bit … <\/p>\n

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