The last month has been full of “blasts from the past.” The pastor who first picked me up from Heathrow Airport and brought me to the East End where I would live for the next five years, when I moved to London in my 20’s, just paid us a weekend visit on his way to […]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-swqrd-c762ee James 3:13-18 “Basically, when you boil it all down, we have communication problems. Which lead to all the other problems. Forget about first-world problems. These are just plain world-problems. And they happen, James says, when we get our “wisdoms” mixed up—trying to bring kingdom-of-the-world wisdom into the Kingdom of God. You can tell the […]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-b5sgg-c68b07 James 5:1-6 International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church “Throughout his letter, James has been drawing this distinction between rich and poor Christians, and in these verses we see his strongest indictment yet, of the rich. A few weeks ago, we saw how he pitted the kingdom of the world (ruled by money […]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3fzm3-c4ea55 James 4; Luke 15 Prodigal Son says: Rev Jennifer A G Layte
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6n38j-c41343 James 2:14-26 “our message is that God came to earth, lived with us, died for us, and came back to life, in order to reconcile all things. Jesus died to save us from our sins, and our sins (and everybody else’s sins) have caused conflict and outright separation—between us and God, between us and […]
It amuses me to wonder what it would be like if the Tower of Babel fell in 2019. Would people be sending emails that were recieved in a suddenly unknown language? Would we all suddenly have different texting abbreviations and not understand other people?
That seems like it could still somehow happen, now that you mention it…