Churches together in Hexham
Last updated at 16:11, Thursday, 23 October 2008
ON Friday, October 31, between 4pm and 6pm, Hexham Holiday Club presents a Light, Bright and Stripy Party at Trinity Methodist Church on Beaumont Street. Designed for children from reception to year 5, this party offers a positive alternative to Halloween. Tickets are available from Shalom Bookshop.
There will be a concert in aid of the Bible Society by Sheds on Fire Saturday, November 1, at 7.30pm at West End Methodist Church, Hexham. Ticket price includes refreshments.
THIS month, Canon Graham Usher from Hexham Abbey is providing a commentary on the weekly Bible reading. Today he looks at Matthew 22.34-46.
At the end of this week’s passage is the verse, ‘No one was able to give Jesus an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.’
The religious leaders have tried to publicly humiliate Jesus but without success.
He has led them away from their plot to get him to say that one of the minutiae of laws is more important than another, preparing as they were to then trap him by saying that surely another law was more important.
Jesus tries to get those in confrontation with his story and vision to think about the big picture.
We, too, can be so involved in the detail and the everyday that we lose sight of that bigger picture. So busy in the daily sorting out of our children that we suddenly realise how much they have grown up.
So busy worrying about a particular difficulty that we forget all that is positive and good in life.
The little things take over and push out the bigger picture.
The hope of the people with whom Jesus related was that the Messiah would come and life would be better.
But those in his midst were so preoccupied with the detail that they did not see what was happening.
First published at 13:10, Thursday, 23 October 2008
Published by http://www.hexhamcourant.co.uk
