Here’s an interesting fact. Actually it’s not very interesting at all, but allows me to use it as an illustration: the fact that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA in the same year this church was rebuilt – 1953. On the face of it, 1 John shouldn’t be too difficult to cope with. Grammatically it’s very simple, with a limited vocabulary. So that it’s the first text students of NT Greek learn to translate. You find the same words and

(Matthew 18, 21-35) I woke up last Monday morning to hear the radio announcing that it was the 16th anniversary of 9/11. I remembered watching the television as the planes smashed into the twin towers – and, knowing that my son was in New York, sitting frozen until his wife phoned to say he was safe. In the clearing up of Ground Zero, you may remember, one of the firemen made what appeared to be a remarkable discovery – a page from the bible, burned and fused onto a fragment