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delivered from the St Francis Church pulpit
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Reflecting on God’s two great commandments, we need surely love God with emotion, love spiritually and love intellectually; and for me that means, ‘love with your frontal cortex, love with your temporal cortex and love with your midbrain’! [To read more, click on title]
Are you fickle? Do you always do what God wants you to do? Do you consult God before you do whatever …? Do you decide to do something and then change your mind because something else has come up? Do you pray about what it is that you want to do? [To read more, click on title]
Jesus accepts us whenever we honestly turn to him, whether it’s in our childhood or on our death bed. Some conversions to Christ have been sudden and dramatic, for others it’s a slow gradual realisation that they can trust in God’s love; but I think it is a good habit to recommit ourselves to Christ at the beginning and at the end of each day … [To read more, click on title]
The Apostle Paul does not present the earth as a disposable background to human life; he speaks of creation as bound up with our choices … We have too often treated the earth as ours to dominate, rather than as a gift to be stewarded. Creation wants to heal. It wants to thrive … [To read more, click on title]
I have given the title of this reflection Perseverance. If anyone had perseverance it was Joseph Scriven. Lesser people may have simply given up, but not him … [To read more, click on title]
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