2013 Easter

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This is part 5 of 5 in the collection Holy Week Easter 2013

The physical reality of the Resurrection is irrelevant. It’s a sign, not of some future reward for good behaviour, but of the inextinguishable spark of God’s Presence within each of us at all times.

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2013 Holy Week – Tuesday

This is part 2 of 5 in the collection Holy Week Easter 2013

As Easter approaches, can we reflect on the choices we’ve made; and can we say that we’ve made them in the same spirit as did the Christ?

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Advent 2012 – Hope

This is part 1 of 5 in the collection Advent 2012

God’s Hope, and ours, is that we nurture each other and the world with all of the love and compassion that we would the Christ child.

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Who’s With Us?

I rather like the human Jesus depicted in the Gospels. He didn’t have a lot of patience with rules and regulations. He wasn’t much on following protocol or conforming to society.

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Setting Our Faces Like Flint

Isaiah – If we allow for the language and culture we can find a thread of connection that runs from ourselves to the ancient origins of our faith

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Generously Blessed

When times are tough it’s easy to justify being less generous. But those are, of course, the very times when our generosity is most crucial.

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the Universal Gift of God’s Spirit

The church is only now beginning to realize how fully open and universal is the gift of God’s Spirit

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Balancing Doubt and Certainty

Balance

Thomas’ problem wasn’t that he’d “go to hell” if he doubted the Resurrection. It was that he’d be afraid to live his faith in atransformational way.

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Why Is This So Surprising?

GOD PREFERS KIND ATHEISTS OVER HATEFUL CHRISTIANS – What’s bold or controversial about that??

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Metanoia – A Living Covenant

the spiritual transformation – metanoia – that we’re called to as Christians, summed up in the passages from Jeremiah and John, embodies the Easter Message

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