Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 22
If we set out on a journey to hear the Voice of God one of the first steps must be to pick up the words God has spoken down the years to faithful people all over the world.
Category: Churches Together in Britain
Show me the Way to go Home
At a time when we are not allowed to travel, our common life has been diminished, and truth changes with the daily newspaper headlines, we need to discover once more what it means to know Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 21
If God knows everything what is the point of making our confession? Surely the public act of confession in our worship and the private telling our sins to a priest is redundant?
A time of ‘fessing up’, whichever way we are called to do it, is a time of self-discovery and an opportunity to know again how much God loves us.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 20
It is never the amount of prayer that is important, though if you have more time to pray use it, it is ensuring that time for prayer however short, is set aside.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 18
If we do not pray we have no food for the journey, no strength for the service and no courage to help endure the sacrifice.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 17
In a time when, for a season, we can’t enter our churches, the call to ‘pray without ceasing’ reminds us that prayer is not only about holy words in holy places but a yielding of our whole life to the One Who Loves us Best
Are You Listening?
Lockdown, locked-up, or enfolded?
There are so many voices to confuse us yet if we shut them all out we are even more isolated.
What if we transformed this lockdown into the gift of being safely enfolded with the Good Shepherd when we can listen intently to His words of love and comfort.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 16
There are so many calls on our life and finding a good balance is difficult. As our pilgrimage continues we will need to emphasise some activities over others, but in so doing we must careful to not neglect any of the good things which help our journey homeward.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 15
Thos of use who are not called to literal poverty can sometimes feel as if we have been lumbered with our possessions and the only way to work with them is to deny them. But if we learn to ‘sit lightly’ to them we can begin to see the goods we have as gifts for the furthering of the Gospel.
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 14
Those who have more than enough of this world’s goods face the challenge of how much they should give away and how much they should keep for their own well-being. Tithing and other formulae for giving are unequal and still leave us in thrall to our possessions. What is needed is a generous heart alongside an open pocketbook.
