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| Richard Bruce Nugent, “Jesus and Judas,” 1947 (Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art) |
A sermon preached at St George’s Bloomsbury on Bible Sunday, 24th October 2021 based on readings from Isaiah 55:1 -11, 2 Timothy 3:14 to 4:5 and John 5:36b-47
For many years I helped to organise a church fair. It was a traditional affair, with bunting, competitions and dancing around a maypole. At first I was given the task of helping to organise the book stall - probably because after the Boy Scouts I was the youngest person involved and best placed to lug the books out onto the village green!
Often we would receive donations of large family bibles to sell. Delicate pages of gold leaf bound in embossed leather; treasure held securely in place by a clasp or buckle. Unwanted heirlooms, whose previous owners thought that a beautiful Bible would be snapped up at a church fair.
How wrong they were!
Year after year we would carry these heavy bible back to the store room in the church hall!
