Tag Archive for ‘service’
Tuesday 25 August
1.Thessalonians 2:1-8; Ps 139; Matthew 23:23-26 Give service How well Jesus understood people. How we can be misled by appearances, the rituals, the rules about the how to live Godly lives, while overlooking the reality: to love one another, to help each other, to engage with God in our hearts, to love him even when […]
Monday 17 August
Judges 2:11-19; Ps. 106; Matthew 19:16-22 Give yourself to God What do I value most? My relationship with God, or something else? Do I try and make deals with God, hoping he’ll forgive my heart being occupied elsewhere if I keep the commandments? Jesus wants us to abandon ourselves to him – to let go […]
Can You Bear It?
Can you Bear It? Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, while a student nurse, I found an elderly gentleman, already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn’t need my help to leave the hospital. After a discussion about rules being followed, he […]
Thursday 29 January
Hebrews 10:19-25, Ps.24, Mark 4:21-25 The Lampstand In our modern secular western society Christianity is increasingly regarded with indifference, ridicule or even hostility. Christians provide generously and heroically for so many of society’s needs but downplay or even suppress the role that their Christian faith plays in providing the inspiration, motivation and energy for their […]
Saturday 3 January
1John 2:29-3:6, Ps.98, John 1:29-34 The Lamb of God Today’s Gospel presents another Jesus – perhaps the definitive one: the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. The sacrificial Jesus who, in his love for me, suffered and died so that I would be forgiven – Jesus, my saviour. I owe […]
Friday 5 December
Isaiah 29:17-24, Psalm 27, Matt. 9:27-31 Lift up your hearts The theme continues – trust in God, have faith that Jesus IS God. The small frustrations in life are minor, compared to others’ woes. Whether we are missionaries among strangers, police, students, service workers or retired, each of us has a daily pattern of duties. […]
Thursday 13 November
Philemon 7-20; Psalm 146; Luke 17:20-25 There is so much of God we do not understand. He is hidden from us, yet in our midst. We can only wonder at and love God for his readiness to share in every part of our lives. Dear God, guide me in my work for others, especially those […]
Tuesday 11 November
Titus 2:1-8, 11-14; Psalm 37; Luke 17:7-10 Serve willingly We are all God’s servants, so serving him and doing his will is what is expected of us. God owes us nothing – he is the most generous of masters. We owe him though – and besides serving him, he commands that we serve (love) one […]
Sunday 26 October
THIRTHIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Exodus 22:20-26; Ps 18; 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10; Matthew 22:34-40 Love God and love others We are ‘servants of the real living God’. Our loving and serving God is evident in our loving service of God’s people. The Gospel reading today makes it clear: we are to love God and to […]
September
The Chief of the New Zealand Army, Major General Dave Gawn MBE and Roman Catholic Bishop to the Military, Archbishop John Dew, along with the Catholic community gathered for the blessing and unveiling of a bronze Risen Christ. The bronze of the figure of the Risen Christ is a tribute to the Catholic military chaplains […]
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