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Continue reading →: I will not leave you orphanedJohn 14:15-21 In today’s reading from John, we see that Jesus is comforting his disciples and letting them know that even though he will be going away, that he would send the Holy Spirit to be with them. Jesus calls the Holy Spirit, the advocate, the spirit of truth. Here…
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Continue reading →: MotherhoodThe month of May is dedicated to Mary the mother of God, and it’s the month during which we celebrate motherhood. Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and so my thoughts turned to the significance of motherhood. The first thing I’d like to share with you, that sums up…
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Continue reading →: The Road to EmmausLuke 24:13-35 There’s something profoundly human about the story from the Gospel of Luke, a simple story about two disciples walking along a road, away from Jerusalem. They’re walking away from hope, away from expectation. But these two are not just travelling, they’re processing their disappointment. They believed in Jesus,…
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Continue reading →: When God seems absentDuring the preparation of a worship service, I was asked to answer this question: What are the moments in your life which make it hard for you to see God’s presence? Praise God, I am so grateful that these days, it’s not difficult for me to see God’s presence in…
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Continue reading →: Follow meLuke 9:23-24 Then he said to them all, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save…
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Continue reading →: By His wounds1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. We cannot move forwards unless we have been freed from sin, and this entails an acceptance of Jesus’ sacrifice…
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Continue reading →: Not of this worldJohn 15:18-19 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates…
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Continue reading →: Jesus is GodHebrews 1:3 “He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.” Jesus is God, not a…
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Continue reading →: Living by the SpiritGalatians 5:22-26 “… the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided…
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Continue reading →: Wake up callHosea 10:12 “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.” Fallow ground refers to the unused resources in our lives, the ones that have lain dormant, or have been used…