I seem to be getting back into writing articles for our local newspaper, The Border Watch. This one was published today, with the editor titling it ‘Easter A Season To Focus On God’. Maybe I’ll start working on titles as well. Next week I’ve got some ideas arising from a story about a man who …
My feed-reader is filling up with a variety of reflections on Lent. I’m among those who are not practitioners. This piece by Sarah Condon at Mockingbird is very constructive in reminding us that Christian devotion must focus on what Christ has done, not on efforts to emulate that which he alone could do. An excerpt: …
Good words from Graham Nicholson at the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church blog on the danger of reducing response to rules. An excerpt: When the heart is focused on keeping rules as rules and not as a response to God or his grace, it is necessarily focused on one’s self and is blinded to true holiness. Jesus …
William Taylor, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate speaks about the singular necessity of sitting at Jesus’ feet in discipleship and ministry. Those who preach and those who hear must share the conviction that we must sit at Jesus’ feet and be fed.
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