Today’s gospel story is amazingly rich in the messages and encouragement that it offers us. It starts off with these four wonderful friends bringing a paralyzed man to Jesus. So committed are they to get help for their friend, they climb up on the house, pull apart the roof, and then lower their friend down, […]
This week’s gospel starts with a report that some foreigners from Greece had come to Jerusalem for the Passover festival, and they told Philip that they would like to see Jesus. Clearly Jesus had developed quite following and was being talked about throughout the region. Recently, I was talking to an army officer in my […]
Has anyone here had a mountaintop experience lately. Has anyone here had a mountain top experience at all. Maybe some people are wondering, what I am talking about. Let’s try to get in touch with that concept a bit. What do we experience when we go to a mountaintop….. Yes, we see far out into […]
What an inspirational scriptures for us to reflect upon today. – The Light of Christ has come into the world. In my training through Banyo seminary and Brisbane College of Theology almost 20 years ago, I picked up a simple formula for preaching : open with a story; link that to God story ; and […]