Voices of Holy Week: Jesus

Bible Reading: Luke 19.41-44 I couldn’t even hold back the tears today. There was just too much at stake as I looked out over the city. It wasn’t enough just to sit back and look. I had become so overwhelmed there was no other response. The city of Jerusalem was becoming somewhere that I was […]

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Voices of Holy Week: Peter

Reading: Luke 22.54-62 What would you do? I mean, who would behave any differently? Put in that position everyone would have been the same, right? He’d told me that I’d do it too. But I didn’t believe him. I said I’d be there for him. I said I’d go to prison and even death. But […]

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Voices of Holy Week: Joseph of Arimathea

Reading: Luke 23.50-56 You never expect to bury your friends. Who’d have thought that the day would end up like this? To find yourself making arrangements to bury a friend who only last night was celebrating the festival with his followers. What a shocking day. The trial had been a shambles. He shouldn’t have been […]

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Voices of Holy Week: The Gardener

Reading: John 20.11-18 It wasn’t unexpected. She would surely not recognise me. She would almost certainly think I was someone else. And anyway, the situation would not lend itself to understanding. Having come to the tomb to grieve, what a confusion it must have been to find the body she was looking for was not […]

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