Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 34
…the problem is that the Gospel is indeed a ‘mere’ message – a simple word. God loves us, what are we to do about it?
We can add nothing to this love, for that would simply diminish its perfection.
Being and Doing – 1 April – Being and Doing
A disappointment, a contradiction, a harsh word, an annoyance, a wrong received and endured as in His Presence, is worth more than a long prayer;
The Food He Ate – An Agapé Meal with Jesus
The aim of this meal is to experience the life of Jesus and God’s call on our lives through the tastes experienced by Jesus and his disciples as well as the Words of Jesus.
Being and Doing – 31 March – Being and Doing
…the truest and surest way in which we can serve our fellowmen is, not so much to do any thing for them, but to be the very truest, purest, noblest beings we know how.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 33
Pride in the fact that God has been gracious to us is nonsensical, arrogant, futile, and destructive of the Good News.
Being and Doing – 30 March – Being and Doing
ALWAYS the important question is, and ultimately we must realise that it is, not what we do or what we know, but what we are.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 32
Yes, religious people must allow their faith to add salt to public life… but public politics is not the ground whereon a personal faith can be prosecuted. When that happens we all too often end up, to Screwtape’s glee and delight, using our faith as a convenience for our own personal preference instead of building the Realm of God.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 31
Silence, lived and felt well, is not emptiness; it is the musical accompaniment to the whispers of God’s love.
Being and Doing – 29 March – Our Work Must Be What we Ourselves Are
To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse; the only way to make them good is to be good.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 30
…. I have learnt that when I give myself over to being ‘His’ I finally discover what it is to be ‘me’.
Suffolk Vicar 