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What’s in the box? Receiving the gift of Christmas

25/12/2022 - Matt Destry

Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 ESV The context Now Matthew gives us a fix in place and time. Bethlehem, a few miles from Jerusalem, is the birthplace of Jesus. Written to a Jewish audience so the focus on the characters are important. The players ‘wise men from the east’ Herod – the king of Israel The chief […]

Ditch the patch and turn to the son: a call to live in light

04/12/2022 - Matt Destry

Isaiah 9:1-6 This passage was written at around the time of the fall of the northern kingdom, to Sennacherib’s invasion of Judah in 701 b.c, to the period of the Exile — around the time of Israel’s exile to Babylon. The first question we might ask is: who is the prophet talking about? Who is […]