A mother, three wise daughters and a brother
1 Corinthians 1: 3-9 and Mark 13: 24-37
“Where is the child?”
Cried a woman.
“Where is our Hope?”
the woman cried.
As we head out of the second lockdown and into new tiered restrictions a lot of people are losing sight of Hope. She is like the missing child everyone wants to find.
All lives matter…
Matthew 25: 31-46
I don’t often get on my soap box in Facebook Corner, but this week I make an exception and if in the end you want to call me a “silly old goat” I hope you can be sure that you are “one of the sheep!”
Children in need give us what we most need!
Isaiah 40: 27- 31 and Matthew 18: 1-9
All our children are in need, but they give us what we most need! They need our love, but what we get from them is the strength and inspiration to do what we must do!
The Kingdom of Peace
Isaiah 65: 17-25 and Luke 19: 37-44
There is a very short and simple hymn with a challenge that has been too big for many people to embrace. It simply says: “peace, perfect peace, is the gift of Christ our Lord,” with a reminder, incase you missed it, “peace, perfect peace, is the gift of Christ out Lord. Thus, says the Lord, will the world know my friends.”
The Rainbow Kingdom
Matthew 5: 1-12 and Revelation 7: 9-end
Heaven must be like a rainbow kingdom with people of different races and cultures rejoicing together as one in praise of God — and this is my vision for earth. This IS the will of our Father so may it be done and one day come to earth.
She’s our sister, let’s make her better!
A message to celebrate One World Week
Read: Matthew 22: 34-46
I would like to sing, but I wont’t. The song would be: He’s got the whole wide world in his hands, He’s got the whole world in his hands….
The world is like a new born child that a Father looks at in awesome wonder at the beginning of a great love story. It is a love from the beginning that has no ending!
A SUNDAY TO REMEMBER HOMELESS PEOPLE!
Build people for homes;
build houses with hearts
and may love make a home….
Isaiah 58: 6-12 and Matthew 25: 34-40
When the disciples asks Jesus where he is living he says, “come, and you will see!” Have you ever wondered what they saw? I wonder whether they crowded into a tiny bedsitter with a shared bathroom down the corridor or whether he was sofa surfing, as they say, at Martha and Mary’s neat little terrace house. I somehow doubt it was a five bed mansion that he lived in, but it could have been a shop doorway or under a tree.
Don’t let it happen!
Isaiah 5: 1-7 and Matthew 21: 33-46
There is a warning on a packet of cigarettes that if you smoke there is a danger to your health in the future. There are warning signs on gambling adverts that “when the fun stops stop” and if you don’t stop, you don’t know what it will do to your future.There are warning signs “not to drink and drive” and if you do there is no knowing how many lives might be ruined in the future.
Thank you for what I’ve got…
Deuteronomy 8: 6-18
I borrowed a table clothe from a neighbour once and felt terrible when I spilt red wine all over it that left a terrible stain. It was a perfectly good table cloth, but it was ruined and I didn’t know what to do other than own up and pay the price of a new one.
An unthinkable question…
Matthew 18: 21-35
If you have forgiven me six or seven times for getting things wrong since I have been in Broadway I have a lot of credit to use up. If you have forgiven me seventy times we have a problem, but multiply that be seven and I could be on my last strike and out the door.