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Teach me how to pray

In a recent Bible daily reading, I came across this definition of prayer by the 19th century preacher F.W. Robertson (and no, I hadn’t heard of him either!).  “It is to connect every thought with the thought of God, to look on everything as His work and His appointment, to submit every thought, wish, and resolve…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 29th January 2023

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time               Year A                                     29th January 2023. Lectionary Readings: Micah 6 v1-8; psalm 15; 1 Corinthians 1 v18-31; Matthew 5 v1-12. The sermon on the mount. As we have seen before, Matthew echoes the life of Moses in the way he portrays Jesus. Jesus goes up a mountain and brings God’s…

Misty windows

We are having some external building work done on our house, and as I write this TFTD all the windows have been covered with opaque plastic sheets. This is to prevent the wet plaster dripping onto the glass. Whilst it doesn’t completely cut out the light, unlike the black sheets that were put up earlier…

Unity, or Union

Many years ago, a lovely man, who would do anything for the Church and was one of the best evangelists I have ever met, but who would have “nothing to do with God and all that stuff” commented one time that if I claimed that there was only one God, why did we need three…

Let the skies be filled

Genesis 1 v 20:    “Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind.” I cause my family many problems as my birthday is on the 1st January and having struggled to think of presents for Christmas they have to think again of something for my birthday. This year one of my presents was…