O Lord, help the church to stop living as if we are of the world. O Lord, renew the church to stop using the world as our standard. O Lord, deliver the church from the evil one. O Lord, bring the church back to Your Word. O Lord, let your prayer for believers become a reality in my generation. O Lord, sanctify our youth and put an end to knife crime in our society in Jesus mighty name. thank you for...
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For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy (1 Cor 7:14). A follow up to our gospel reading last week in reference to Jesus’ love to us as the Father loves him by asking us to “Go and bear fruits” (fruit of the Spirit and Conversion of souls) provides a helpful link to the call of sanctification (Jn 15). Today, in our gospel reading from John 17, Jesus, our true friend and not...
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The answer and solution to mankind’s misguided thinking that brings about war, violence, pain and suffering is found in “Thy kingdom come.” The Kingdom of God, under the direction of Jesus Christ, must come and save man from himself. 1 Thy kingdom come, O God, Thy reign, O Christ, begin; Break with Thine iron rod The tyrannies of sin. 2 Where is Thy rule of peace And purity, and love? When shall all hatred cease, As in the realms above? 3 When comes the promised time That war shall be no more, Oppression, lust, and crime Shall flee...
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The Church’s year of Ascension and Pentecost, an ‘in-between’ stage of renewal resonates with world’s state of economic and political ‘in-between’ and the church’s spiritual stage of ‘in-between.’ The Christian Year summons us to God’s concern about people’s attitude to the Almighty but in our humanistic society and culture, we are increasingly very concern about the things that happen to people. Between God’s concern about people’s attitude to the Almighty and the drive for our humanistic culture, The Kingdom of God is ‘in-between’ stage, like a marriage, in the process of becoming, growing and developing. Hosmer, Frederick Lucian in...
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The reflection in our gospel reading today from John 15 suggests the Father’s love for Jesus as the measure of Christ’s love for us, a love bearing fruit, “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.” Loving like God is a magnificent and fruitful love. The question is how did the Father love Jesus? God loved Jesus by pushing him out of his comfort zone, ‘out of the comfortable confines of heaven down onto earth where, as a baby, Herod tried to kill him.’ God loved Jesus by sending him into ‘the...
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