Tag: bible
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Your Love is King: Kingdom Season Reflections on Strengthening Your Faith
We’re in the last church season before the year wraps up, starting with Remembrance Sunday and ending with Stir Up Sunday. It’s all about keeping hope alive amidst chaos. Let’s deepen our relationship with God, spend time in prayer, and possibly check out some lesser-read Bible books. Embrace the season!
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Gratitude: Lessons for Today from Jesus’ Parables
We can be grateful for who we are compared with others who seem spiritually weaker than we are, or we can be grateful that God sees us for who we are and shows us love and mercy. We can turn our backs on others, or celebrate with them at the heavenly party Jesus throws.
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What Does the Fox Say?
The Pharisees, those who most often pit themselves against Jesus, come to warn him that Herod wants him dead. He is advised to run away, to go into exile as his earthly forefather David did, to protect himself. Instead he calls Herod a fox, and says ‘nope’.
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Preaching out
On a personal level, finishing my contract as Food Lead has given me more space and time to focus on how I live out my own priestly calling, but on a more public level, and indeed an international stage, there are questions about what a priest should or shouldn’t do.
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All you need is Love.
God hems us in like a shepherd protecting the sheep, like a parent tucking their child into bed at night; God watches over our going out and our coming back in again, God goes before us whether it is over the seas, or into the mountains; God knows every precious word on our lips (and…
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Disaster on the Dancefloor
We will soon be thrown into the turmoil of Maundy Thursday, the fear and dread of Good Friday, the lament and waiting of Easter Saturday, and finally the hope-filled exhilaration of Easter Sunday. Perhaps not so much disaster and hope as hope, disaster, hope?
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Under the Fig Tree
Nathanael wasn’t showy in his prayer-life, he didn’t preach in the synagogues or on the street corner, he sat in the shade of a fig tree.