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The Transformation of Acceptance For over 20 years, the churches I attended were essentially experience-driven. Feeling good and healthy was a sign of God's favour whereas sickness and misfortune pointed to moral failings. Worse still, if your sickness did not respond...

Weekly Reflection for May 7th, 2020 When Change is not at our Request A friend in conversation recently spoke this sentence to me: “We all like to choose change. We don’t like when it’s put upon us.” I realise that is not exactly profound, and yet I think it really...

Weekly Reflection for April 30th, 2020   The Transformation of Prayer “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their...

Sunday Reflection for April 26, 2020 Our Father Knows What We Need - part 2 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 During Easter, we spend a lot of time...

Sunday Reflection for April 19, 2020 Daily Prayers and Easter Answers “And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”...

A LENTEN REFLECTION (Dated: April 9th, 2020) Christus ist auferstanden! If we were physically in church this Sunday morning, retired German teacher Ian Stanton, with a mischievous smile on his face, would likely come my way and say “Christus ist auferstanden!” (Christ...