This is a short video clip of a few people from Enfield Vineyard sharing their wisdom regarding what Jesus meant when he said that to receive the kingdom of Go we need to be as little children. Here is the image that I used as aide to raise the question… Read full post »

One day a group of theoretical physicists that no one outside of the universities had ever heard of, began to make the claim that they had discovered and refined a technique which they believed would have far reaching and profound consequences. At first of course, they were virtually ignored, which… Read full post »

Here’s the text for the Good Friday meditation 14/04/2022 at Enfield Vineyard. I tried to offer people an opportunity to reflect on the descent of Jesus from his heavenly abode into the midst of human life on earth, rather than concentrate on the awful physically pain of the last events.… Read full post »

Our last session – and where to start? Inevitably most of the content was left uncovered. I tried to get somewhere away from the idea that fall itself was just about eating a fruit when told not too. A bit like saying ‘no’ to a toddler maybe? We discussed how… Read full post »

The aims of session – 5 were to consider the implications of our image / idol status introduced in session 3 and bedded in via session 4 and to prepare the way for our last session which will be on the fall. After recapping the ideas surrounding humanity as being… Read full post »

For our next session please take a moment to watch this moving little video. Watch especially for the crowds’ reaction and the reaction of the elephant. Consider this interaction in the light of our being Yahweh God’s image/idol. Is it a reflection of God’s character as you understand it? How… Read full post »

Eyes to see, ears to hear. Our fourth session already – and I was really pleased that the ‘full class’ discussion times were gaining momentum. The aim of this session was to dig deeper into why the authors of Genesis 1 chose such contentious word, tslem, (in Hebrew obviously!) to… Read full post »

What is man(kind) that you are mindful of him? We began with a very brief look at what is an idol from a biblical perspective rather than how we have changed it’s meaning. I stressed that God forbids idolatry. Next was a quick trip into 21st century image-saturation contrasting the… Read full post »

As it was in the beginning In Session 2 we focused on the translation of the notoriously difficult verse 1 -especially that pesky first word. Just how do you translate ” In beginning created God…” – — yes, no “the” in the first clause. Then we looked at what an… Read full post »

What was creation? In the first session of our ‘Origins’ course we looked at a few ideas around how we learn. After that we began to look at the initial state of play as Genesis 1 kicks off with ‘formless and void’. This is the turned around completely as under… Read full post »