Monday Rewrite

Monday Rewrite

Familiar Bible passages, seen with new creative eyes

Monday Rewrite: The Living Dead

A hand shot up through the damp earth. It stuck there, like a strange looking five fingered plant. Then another hand. Then an arm. And a second one. A body …

Monday Rewrite: The Trial

Pontius Pilate rolls his eyes and flaps a hand at the assembled priests. He turns and goes back inside, ordering a drink and Jesus to be brought to him. ‘You …

Monday Rewrite: The Light

The Light got all decked out in flesh and brought us a kind of map, in his own being, in the blood pumping in his veins and in the wonder …

Monday Rewrite: A Wedding at Cana

An easy-to-perform sketch about Jesus at the Wedding in Cana, as in John chapter 2. If you would like a printable copy of this please message me via this website. …

Monday Rewrite: 12

The friendly old rabbi looks at him with a twinkle in his bushy-browed eye. ‘Your mum and dad will be well worried. You know that. Two days it’s been now.’ …

Monday Rewrite: The 99

There was a man who once lost a sheep. Back then he did the daft and reckless thing of leaving the other 99 so he could do anything and everything …

Monday Rewrite: Going Overboard

And lo, one day some parents did bring their little children to Jesus so he could bless them, but the disciples did chide them and tell them not to bother …

Monday Rewrite: How?

How did you manage to eat anything that night? We so easily call it The Last Supper, a celebration. And yet you knew. All night you knew. What was coming. …

Monday Rewrite: A Big Small Step

He thought it would be like standing on a cliff edge, looking down, his knees knocking out a frantic drumbeat and his face white with chalky horror at the thought …

Monday Rewrite: Flesh

Two men were sitting have a drink at a bar. One looked over at the other, moved his seat closer and said, ‘Don’t tell anyone but I’m actually God in …

Monday Rewrite: Waking Up

And so he came to himself. Having run out of options, leaked all his energy, exhausted his plan Bs. He came to himself. Saw his fears and his foibles and …

Monday Rewrite: Found

The lamb looks up, confused, scratched and grubby. Understanding so little of what is going on here. One minute rushing headlong into a bright new future, the next lost, ditch-bound, …

Monday Rewrite: Creator Inc.

Ultimate entrepreneurs Creator Inc. have announced their new radical plan for the future. They say that, in accordance with ancient guidelines and timeless truths, they will be setting in progress …

Monday Rewrite: Doubtful Worship

The disciples stand and stare at the empty space. The space once filled by the one who has lived more than they have ever lived. The one who has felt …

Monday Rewrite: The Boss

The Boss eyes Stone carefully, narrows his piercing eyes and cocks his head to one side. He can almost hear the cogs grinding. What will it be? A death sentence? …

Monday Rewrite: Temptation

Based on Luke’s version of this encounter, in Luke 4. Jesus (J) walks on and kneels down, resting back on his legs, centre stage. He is wearing dirty ragged clothes. …

Monday Rewrite: Discipled

We all get discipled. By experience, habits, peer pressure, hurts, triumphs , disasters, failures, advice, warnings, authority figures, the media, misunderstanding, gossip, rumours, fears, regrets, aspirations, goals, culture, ambition… The …

Monday Rewrite: Confused

Peter’s confused. He scratches his head. The others don’t believe a word of it. How could it be true? And what’s the value of a woman’s tale anyway to them? …

Monday Rewrite: Healing the Enemy

I’ve not been the same, not since that night. I came with the enemy, intent on crushing the life out of him. Desperate to settle this thing once and for …

Monday Rewrite: A Whole New Language

It’s breaking her heart to see him like this. This isn’t right. Not at all. Not at all. Not at all… Somewhere above a vulture circles in a threatening sky, …