Tag Archive for ‘faith’
Sunday 20 April
Easter Sunday Acts 10:34, 37-43, Ps 118, Col 3:1-4, John 20:1-9 Beyond belief Nothing can prepare us for Easter. Easter is about believing the impossible, celebrating the miraculous and embracing the mysterious. Resurrection from the dead is beyond our imagining let alone our comprehending. Even Jesus’ own disciples failed to understand what the Scriptures had […]
Tuesday 8 April
Numbers 21:4-9, Ps 102, John 8:21-30 Jesus sent by the Father Central to Jesus’ message and mission was that he came from the Father and would return to the Father. What he taught, what he declared to the world was what he brought from the Father, the Good News of God’s love for us and […]
Thursday 27 March
Jeremiah 7:23-28, Ps 95, Luke 11:14-23 Living with Jesus Are you for Jesus or against him? Being for him means believing in him and working with him to build his house. It means freeing ourselves from the demons of sin, the “snares of the devil” who would have us for his own. Being for him […]
Monday 24 March
2 Kings 5:1-15, Ps 42, Luke 4:24-30 Come, listen, live! A problem God encounters from time to time is that our lack of faith gets in the way of his work. By blocking our ears to him, we are losing out. Our sins cannot be healed, our souls are lonely. Miracles through the intervention of […]
Wednesday 19 March
ST JOSEPH, HUSBAND OF MARY 1 Samuel 7:4-5, 12-14, 16, Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22, Ps 89, Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24 or Luke 2:41-51 Faith What great faith St Joseph must have needed to protect his wife and foster son from the circumstances and danger surrounding Jesus’ birth. Joseph could have refused to involve himself but […]
Tuesday 18 March
Isaiah 1:10, 16-20, Ps 50, Matthew 23:1-12 Practice what you preach Jesus asks us to think carefully about ourselves. Are we being sincere in our practice of our faith or is it mostly just for show? We need to understand this if we are to fully comprehend what it is Jesus is actually asking of […]
Friday 14 March
Ezekiel 18:21-28, Ps 130, Matthew 5:20-26 Pray for sinners On the face of it, murder and anger are poles apart. Yet where murder kills outright, hosting a poisonous anger against others is a sore on the same continuum. So while most of us are not murderers, we probably have to deal with destructive anger sometimes. […]
Thursday 13 March
Esther 4:17, Ps 138, Matthew 7:7-12 An invitation to faith All we need to activate God’s promised responses in his invitation to ask, seek and knock, is faith. He will respond as a loving, generous father – as we all well know through the many blessings we receive in our everyday lives, if we only […]
Friday 21 February
James 2:14-26; Ps 112; Mark 8:34-9:1 Paradox Jesus words are hard to understand – why must I lose my life to save it? James’ “faith without good works is dead” sheds a little light, perhaps. If I say that I love Jesus and do nothing else, my faith is hollow. By stepping out and committing […]
Monday 17 February
James 1:1-11; Ps 119; Mark 8:11-13 Freedom from doubt James tells us that God will give freely if we ask with faith and no trace of doubt. That’s hard. Placing a request before the Lord starting with “if it be your will” is full of doubt. Thinking to myself as I pray for something “nothing […]
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