Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 1 – Ash Wednesday
Fasting is not about giving up on stuff but instead is about giving up on the direction we face.
Fasting is not about giving up on stuff but instead is about giving up on the direction we face.
We have power to become Children of God and are challenged to choose between being Childish – a brat of Beelzebub – or childlike – a Kidult of the Kingdom.
Character and Conduct – 23 January – Character of R.L. Stevenson I HAVE referred to his chivalry only to find that in reality I was thinking of every one of the whole group of attributes which are associated with that name. Loyalty, honesty, generosity, courage; courtesy, tenderness, and self-devotion; to impute no unworthy motives and to bear… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 23 January – Character of R.L. Stevenson
Character and Conduct – 8 January – The Footpath to Peace TO be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 8 January – The Footpath to Peace
The church is called to be a ‘Son et Lumière’ presentation that lets the light of God’s love shine brightly and offer hope to a dark world.
Describing the gift of Christ at Christmas cannot be done by th use of one name alone.
We find in the manger a gift so large that it does indeed ‘hold the whole world in it’s hands’
If Jesus had a choice as to which present He received at His birth would he have chosen Gold, Frankinsence and Myrrh?
Our wounded Lord calls us to tend the wounds of others and we cannot, we dare not, betray them for the sake of Him who was betrayed by His own followers.
The Bible must be at the heart of our faith however we must remember that its purpose is to point us towards God and not be an end in itself.
If we reduce our faith to a matter of which coins belong to which part of our life we run the risk of separating our life into sacred and secular. We are called to be a holy people every moment of our lives not only on Sundays.