Reflections

This is the reading for the Feast Day of St Barnabas: Some of the believers who were scattered by the persecution which took place when Stephen was killed went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, telling the message to…

We have a long reading today – but it’s a good one! When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers were gathered together in one place. Suddenly there was a noise from the sky which sounded like a strong wind…

Then Jesus opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “This is what is written: the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death three days later, and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of…

Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women,…

Here is today’s (quite long) reading: Jesus later appeared to his disciples along the shore of Lake Tiberias. Simon Peter, Thomas the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, and the brothers James and John, were there, together with two other disciples. Simon Peter…

Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, ‘Who do people say I am?’ They replied, ‘Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’…

Some Christians call themselves ‘born again’ Christians. They may be thinking of the story of when Nicodemus the Pharisee came to Jesus by night, bringing his questions, and Jesus told him ‘No one can see the kingdom of God unless…

When I have something that is really challenging to do, I have a tendency to put it off – to procrastinate. I don’t really get a sense of urgency until it really is urgent. I don’t think that Jesus was…

Jesus said to his disciples, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?  Look at the…