Lent 4: Bishop Michael Hawkins
There is in all and each of us a hunger and a thirst, which nothing in this world can satisfy. The things of this world will either disappoint or addict us.
Read moreLent 3: Bishop Michael Hawkins
We are confronted this morning by another hard saying of our Lord: Whoever is not with me is against me. Jesus equates mere tolerance of himself, and his work and mission, as open opposition. Neutrality is effective opposition…
Read moreLent 4: Father Gethin
Jesus is indeed healer, and teacher, and the very image of heaven, but He is more than these: He is truly, utterly, and profoundly, with us. He is the teacher who also has pity and compassion, and who provides for the life of His disciples out of His own substance.
Read moreLent 2: Bishop Michael Hawkins
We live in a time and place which winks at sexual sins on the false pretense of Christian charity… Someone once suggested that the State has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, and we have come now to presume, that neither does the Church have any business in the bedrooms of her faithful…
Read moreLent 3: Father Gethin
This Sunday, as we witness the power of our Saviour over the demons, as we watch the ‘stronger man’ come and proclaim the Kingdom of God with a divine might and authority, our sense of conviction, our Christian calling to ‘draw near to God,’ also receives a new and clearer focus.
Read moreLent 1: Bishop Michael Hawkins
The story of Jesus’ temptation is the story of power unexercised. It is hard for us to understand, because we live so much in a day when “just because I can” is justification for any action at all.
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Read moreQuinquagesima: Bishop Michael Hawkins
People get the warm fuzzies from 1st Corinthians 13, and it remains a most popular passage of Scripture among unbelievers. But I want to suggest to you another way of hearing and reading those beautiful words of Saint Paul.
Read moreLent 2: Father Gethin
The Gospel for this Sunday is certainly one of the most controversial moments in our Lord’s earthly ministry; voices clamour to point out His heartlessness, His prejudice, and no doubt His lack of political correctness. But what about the story itself, and what might it have to teach us on our Lenten way?
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