I have often asked myself the question, “why did Jesus use the form of parables to preach his message?” I ask this question because like Anne and Hilary, I find […]
Reflection for November 15th. Ann
Matthew 25:14-30 Last time it was my turn to reflect on our reading, it was the story of the Wedding Feast and that was quite hard to understand and now […]
Remembrance Sunday
Reflection Hilary Remembrance Sunday […]
Reflection November 1st
Matthew 23:1-12 Margaret Most of you will remember Simeon who was one of our guests at Dorothy’s Memory Café until his death in 2018. Simeon was an orthodox Jew who […]
Reflection. October 25th. Keith
Matthew 22; 37-39 Love gets rather a poor press these days, in the newspapers and TV and on the Internet. I think it was Bob Dylan who once said love’s […]
Reflection for October 18th
Matthew 22:15-22 Rev. Dr. Marion Tugwood “Head I win, tails you lose”, the same trick question that my uncle fooled me with when I was young is put to Jesus […]
Ann’s reflection for October 11th
Matthew 22:1-14 When I read this Wedding Feast story through carefully, it reminded me that Hilary and Jonnie in the last few weeks had said parables were often hard to […]
Sunday October 4th. Philippians3:4b-14. Keith
“I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Jesus Christ my Lord”: Philippians 3, 8a Paul was acutely aware that he carried a lot of old baggage […]
Sunday September 27th. Philippians 2: 1-11. Margaret
“Let the same mind be in you as was in Christ Jesus” I count myself fortunate to have this beautiful passage to reflect on. The only problem is that it […]
Reflection: Matthew 20:1-16
20 September 2020 Jonnie Hill I wonder what you felt last week when, in her Words of Wisdom, Hilary mentioned always having found the parables of Jesus a bit […]