Christ’s Compassion That Moves Us To Action

(Matthew 9:35-38) In his gospel, Matthew gives us a snapshot of Jesus in ministry. He travelled through towns and villages, teaching in synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, healing every disease and sickness. But Matthew doesn’t stop at...

“Every man dies, not every man truly lives”

The title is a line from William Wallace in the 1995 film, ‘Brave Heart’. The late Dr Edward Stieglitz, an expert on high blood pressure, geriatric medicine and a leading authority on old age and its problems said something similar, “In the end, it’s not the years in...

Loving and engaging people as Jesus sees them 

The struggle for most of us isn’t whether we should talk to people about Jesus but how. We picture sharing our faith as a memorised script we deliver, a performance we are more than likely to make a mess of and so we say nothing at all. However, Pippert in her book,...

Christ with us in our witness

Sharing our faith with our non-Christians is an indispensable part of our relationship with Jesus but for most of us, we would we quick to admit we are not doing enough of it. We find ourselves caught in an internal tug-of-war. Often the immediate solution that comes...

Jesus – fully human and fully Lord

At the heart of Christian theology lies the ‘Incarnation’ – the belief that Jesus Christ was fully human and fully God. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John...