Terabithia or Bust! – A Sermon
God is a God of love and welcome and we need to set aside the lies about condemnation which our early faith may have taught us
God is a God of love and welcome and we need to set aside the lies about condemnation which our early faith may have taught us
Can we care even for those who have been to us as Judas was to Jesus…
…But if I can’t forgive those who betray me how can I expect forgiveness from God?
There are a great many people in the world whose first and last thought in life is of what is due to them…..
Within, in the secret soul, carefully hidden from men – what do you keep which weigh down your activity for God, which checks your feet when you wish to help mankind as Jesus helped them? Small and petty jealousies which gnaw away your high endeavour, which eat the heart out of your ideals and make mean your imagination; dog-faced memories of injuries done to you… Fling them off the shoulders of your life; fling them off your heart.
Jesus is our Midwife and like a mother looks on us every day with love.
Jesus, with His own body, defeats the power of death and sin and bears us all into the promise of the Life after Life.
We are not called to live in some sort of Holy Huddle protected from all the woes of this wicked world but instead journey with Jesus to Gethsemane, to Calvary, and to the hope brought with the Empty Tomb of Easter Day.
Travelling with Jesus does not mean we are immune from storms. It does mean we are safe in the midst of them and are given the courage to follow Him more closely
During ‘Twixtmas, like Mary & Joseph having been busy about the Festival we may have lost the Child at the centre of it. How will we use the rest of the season to find the One who came to find us?
if we knew ‘the hour and the day’ of our Lord’s return we might be tempted to behave a little more like Christ as the Day approaches. And what kind of fair-weather (or more correctly Apocalyptic-weather) disciples would that prove us to be?