Category: Homilies & Reflections
God’s gift of wisdom
Read More: God’s gift of wisdom26 July 2020 Many people have asked, what will life be after the lockdown? It’s amazing how many people’s lives have been affected. You’ve heard phrases like “new normal”, but as Christians we approach it differently, because we want what God wants for our lives. There are things to be unlearned and things to be…
What you follow proves who you trust
Read More: What you follow proves who you trustRomans 8:12-14 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation – but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. For those who are…
The God of promises
Read More: The God of promises19 July 2020 Because God is a God of promises, we have hope. Many of us have made promises which we haven’t fulfilled – but not God, because otherwise He can no longer be God. If He promises something, surely it will come to pass. One of the promises God has given us is His presence…
What have you done with your gift?
Read More: What have you done with your gift?Matthew 25:26-28 But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. So…
God’s gift of freedom
Read More: God’s gift of freedom2 July 2020 The book of Exodus tells the story of a people in slavery set free by God to have their own identity and dignity and to become His witness to the world. It tells how God in His power and might intervened to free slaves and make them a people unto Him. God…
Your Unalienable rights
Read More: Your Unalienable rightsWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. A Declaration of Independence by the Representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled, July 4, 1776…
Owe one another love
Read More: Owe one another loveRomans 13:8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. “Owe no one anything”. Don’t be in debt to anyone. In other words, always pay what you owe. The law tells us “You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired…
The worst kind of lost
Read More: The worst kind of lostMatthew 7:21-23 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then…
Your ways are not My ways
Read More: Your ways are not My waysIsaiah 55:8-11 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it…
Which lives matter?
Read More: Which lives matter?“Do you think Jesus would be for Black Lives Matter? I wonder if Jesus would say enough is enough. I wonder if he’d stand up for the oppressed and not ignore their struggle. Wouldn’t he see them for who they are? Because all lives don’t matter UNTIL black lives matter.” – Facebook user to one…
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