If we are truly followers of Christ, then the Holy Spirit will cause us to act in ways that are exclusively good. Let us pray, this Lent, that the fruit of the Spirit will unfold in our daily lives, and that we may be attuned to his will in our lives at all times.
A theological memoir on parenting, love and disability: “Frances Young has given the church a great gift in this book…..You won’t agree with all of her conclusions but you will find yourself both profoundly moved and challenged”.
What are the things do we do, the ways we behave, that might be conditioning our souls to become more – rather than less – sinful?
Paul doesn’t just think sin is something that we do. He thinks sin is something that takes control of us.
That’s what happened at our baptisms – whether we were christened as infants or came to faith in Christ later in life. We died to our old selves – our sin – and rose to new life in the righteousness of Christ. This Lent, let us hold that challenge before us.
A review of a “stimulating and challenging wake-up call to the Church to remember rightly, to be rooted in tradition but engaged in the present, to remain faithful to Jesus but alive to the present”
Do we really have faith in Jesus? That is the question that the self-examination process of Lent should pose us.
The death of Jesus is nothing less than God loving us so much that he chose to fix the shortfall in divine-human relations himself, by dying for us, at our hands.
A review of a history of the Communion which also sets out a vision for its future
As Abraham had faith in God even in the unlikeliest of circumstances, let us also have a hopeful faith.