May 30, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Writing about his experiences, Paul proclaimed in the reading from Second Corinthians, “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the...
May 22, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
I wonder if you’ve ever thought about how strange it is that we can’t see God. We believe in God. We come to church to worship God. But sometimes it seems like loving God would be so much easier if we lived back in Jesus’ time. As Christians we believe that Jesus is...
May 16, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
It was fifty days since Jesus had risen from the dead on Easter morning and fifty days after the Jewish celebration of Passover. For the Jewish people, this was another big holiday, called Pentecost. People had come to Jerusalem from many different countries to...
May 9, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
“Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked… but their delight is in the way of the Lord” (Ps 1:1,2) But who is whom, exactly?? At first glance, it can be very easy to decide which of these applies to ourselves. Or not. “I don’t follow the way of the...
May 2, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
In today’s Gospel, Jesus does not say, “Love Jesus or love God as I have loved you”. No, he says: This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. If we really love our brothers and sisters, including strangers and even enemies, we do not have to...
Apr 23, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
We love those we know and who are like us. We hold no fear. There is nothing to muddy our sanitised world views. It is easy to be the person of faith in that place. But we are not given that luxury. We must love the invisible ones, the ones who are different from us,...
