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Continue reading →: Here I am, send me!Lk 10:1-11, 16-20 In the Gospel reading from Luke we hear about how Jesus sent out a group of seventy of his disciples to preach the Good News. It’s called the Great Commission and this story has influenced many people in history, most notably, a young man who lived around…
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Continue reading →: Birth of the Church
Acts 2:1-21 Pentecost Sunday is the day that we celebrate the Church’s birthday. On this holy day the Holy Spirit came to us and filled the hearts of the faithful, giving us the tools we need to establish Christ’s Church and to carry on his mission of bringing the Good…
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Continue reading →: Jesus sets us freeActs 16:16-34 Today I’d like to talk about the story of Paul and Silas in prison. It’s an amazing story on several levels, but I think the main take home from this story is that Jesus is the only person who can truly set us free. Looking at these events…
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Continue reading →: Jesus SavesHomily for Palm Sunday Palm Sunday always has an extra special significance for me, because our daughter was born early on a Palm Sunday. The day was fine and we saw the sun rising, the morning was crisp and cool, everything looked fresh and new, our first born was coming…
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Continue reading →: The ministry tool kitIn an interview with J. John, the minister R T Kendall, a Christian pastor, speaker, writer and teacher, was asked, after all his years in ministry, if he had any advice to give to his younger self. And he responded by bringing the audience’s attention to Acts 4:13. In this…
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Continue reading →: We are following“Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow.” -St Mary MacKillop I just got off the phone to a dear friend in ministry who is sorely physically challenged and who had a setback, an obstacle to her carrying out her work in…
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Continue reading →: Everlasting loveJeremiah 31:3 The Lord appeared to him from far away.“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.” Charles Spurgeon, the great English Baptist preacher, said about this verse in Jeremiah: “It is not, ‘I have pitied thee,’ nor ‘I have thought about thee,’ but ‘I…
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Continue reading →: Willing to be gatheredSecond Sunday in Lent (Luke 13:31-35) Today’s reading contains what is called the Lament for Jerusalem. Jesus loves Jerusalem and its people, even though he knows that he will be rejected, and be put to death there. His sadness is apparent when he says, “How often have I desired to…
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Continue reading →: Bless-ed in the here and nowLk 6:17-26, Jer 17:5-10, 1 Cor 15:12-20 Today’s reading from Luke describes the Sermon on the Plain, which is similar to the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus delivered both of these sermons early in his ministry while his disciples were still new, and the crowds at these sermons were huge.…
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Continue reading →: SlothThere are two kinds of people in this world, people who shut cupboards and people who don’t shut cupboards. And only one of these groups does not get upset by this. I know this sounds small but it isn’t, because if a cupboard non shutter and a cupboard shutter are…
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