Reflection 18 October – Whose Image Do You Choose?
Reflection – Dan Spragg Whose Image do you choose? We have to know that there was no way Jesus could answer the question with either a yesor a no. That is what they were wanting, but he knew that. ‘Why are you putting me to thetest, you hypocrites?..’ At the point in...
Reflection 20 September
Reflection by Anne Stewart So, the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place where you get what you think you deserve! Is thisnews to you? Are you perhaps having some second thoughts about its appeal? How can aslice of heaven on earth be a place where everyone gets the same...
Reflection 13 September – Rev Dr Jordan Redding
Reflection – Rev Dr Jordan Redding – visiting guest preacher I.I remember when I was training to be a minister, one of my lecturers told me his youngpreschool daughter had asked him why we go to church. “What would you answer?”, heasked the class of ordinands. Surely,...
Reflection 6 September – We’re in This Thing Together
Matthew 18:15-20 | We’re in this thing together a reflection by Dan Spragg I must admit to ‘sighing’ a little when I saw that this was the gospel reading for today! It falls into the category of ‘one of those’ passages, those ones that we would rather not have to deal...
Reflection 2 – 30 August “The How-To of Love”
Reflection – Anne Stewart‘The how-to of love’ We talk about love quite a lot in church– you might have noticed! Wego on and on about it, but then so did Jesus. Through the witness ofJesus love, surely, is at the centre of all we know God to be! We can soeasily forget...
Reflection 1 – 30 August
Reflection - Dan Spragg Being a life-long student of Jesus the MessiahIn preaching class during my training there was a mantraoften quoted - I forget where it came from - it went likethis: As preachers, we are to comfort the disturbed anddisturb the comfortable! What...