If we would follow the eccentricity of our Master, let it not be in asceticism, in denunciation, in punctiliousness, and scruples about trifles, but in largeness of heart, singleness of eye, true breadth of character, true love to men, and heroism for Christ.
Service always ready to become sacrifice is the condition of our growth, and the condition of our joy.
THE sanction of this Law (the Christian Law) is not fear of punishment, but that self-surrender to an ever-present Lord, of those who are His slaves at once and His friends, which is perfect freedom.
In each generation the obligation is laid on Christians to bring new problems of conduct and duty into the Divine light, and to find their solution under the teaching of the Spirit.
If you love, you will unconsciously fulfil the whole law…
We are told to visit them that are in prison. A good thing, but it were better if we could save them going there. We are told to visit the sick; it were better still, and we should so better have fulfilled the law, if we could have saved some of them from falling sick.
Perhaps there is nothing which so mars and spoils the religious life as bad temper and selfishness.
Suka uSatan! Sermon for 16th Sunday after Trinity – 15 September 2024 – St John the Baptist, Felixstowe Text: For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. (Mark 8v35) God give you peace my… Continue reading A Sermon: Suka uSatan!
The hard path of daily duty is the only path to tread, not because one is thinking of oneself, but because one wishes to forget oneself, and to think only of God, and of those that remain.
The whole of one’s nature becomes sensitive, easily wounded, easily depressed.
