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
Our Beloved in leaving us does not leave us desolate but leaves reminders of his presence. Perhaps not in an enchanted place but in ordinary things
To be able to provide a home for another is a precious gift, to know that our Beloved provides a home for us makes all our challenges, whether they involve squatting bishops or not, melt away.
Fierce weather has a way of shaking the fidgets out of my system. Not just the cobwebs of life but the things that I’ve been clinging on to for no good reason other than they are mine and nobody else’s; and such things always weigh me down instead of setting me free.
Vengeance is the ultimate form of silliness. It accomplishes nothing because it cannot restore anything.
With our petty arguments over whether we were being ‘Bouncy or Coffy’ or even ‘Boffy’ how ever will those around us be able to see we are Christians by the way we love one another?
Like the Grinch we must learn that friendship and joy is never about possessions and gifts and stuff, but about each other. When we finally realise that all our hearts will ‘Grow three sizes’.
Those of us who are in a position to be generous can easily fall into the trap of thinking that those who receive help should ‘like it or lump it’.
As the good book reminds us, when we ask we will receive (Matthew 7v8) but this promise does not give us permission to take without asking nor use someone else’s precious possessions as our playthings.
Too often the ones who should be ‘making plain the way of the LORD’ are cluttering it with Points of Order, procedural motions, and a general antagonism towards their siblings.