Lent Reflection: Wednesday 25th March 2020 Bible Reading: John 17:20-26 Reflection: The High Priestly Prayer, Part 3: Unify When living in America, I regularly went into a certain famous coffee franchise to get my caffeine fix. While queuing up one morning to place my order, the lady in front of...
Lent Reflection: Tuesday 24th March 2020 Bible Reading: John 17:6-19 Reflection: The High Priestly Prayer, part 2: Sanctification After praying for Himself, Jesus lifts up his disciples, the people that God gave him, so that He could pass on the truth that God had instilled within Him. These disciples are...
Lent Reflection: Monday 23rd March 2020 Bible Reading: John 17:1-5 Reflection: The High Priestly Prayer, Part 1: Glory Jesus is in the last throws of His life, one more hour and He’ll be arrested. During this time, He looks nowhere else than to His Father and asks that He may...
Lent Reflection: Saturday 21st March 2020 Bible Reading: John 16:25-33 Reflection There is trouble in the world. We all experience it. We all encounter difficulties and grief. This truth has never been so clearly brought home to us than in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic that is currently sweeping...
Lent Reflection: Friday 20th March 2020 Bible Reading: John 16:16-24 Reflection Jesus is preparing his disciples for his death, but it’s all still sounding very confusing to them. What does He mean? Where’s He going? And, why will He reappear again? Jesus is talking about His death and resurrection; He’s...
Lent Reflection: Thursday 19th March Bible Reading: John 16:4b-15 Reflection Losing a loved one is painful, and people respond in different ways when someone they love dies. Jesus Himself experienced the searing pain of loss when His friend Lazarus died (you can read about this in John chapter 11). We’re...
Lent Reflection: Wednesday 18th March Bible Reading: John 15:18-16:4a Reflection Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It, ‘All the world’s a stage, And all men and women merely players; They have their exits and entrances…’ In John’s gospel, the world isn’t just an inanimate stage, it operates in a more...
Lent Reflection: Tuesday 17th March Bible Reading: John 15:12-17 Reflection LOVE each other. Just like Jesus loves us. That’s what He asks us to do. Easy right? The Love Jesus asks us to have isn’t the feel-good fuzzy love of Hollywood movies, where there’s a music-filled, poetic end scene and...
Lent Reflection: Monday 16th March Bible Reading: John 15:1-11 Reflection In 2018 a bottle of wine was auctioned off by Christie’s for a record breaking half a million dollars, it was produced in Burgundy in 1945 from the vineyards of Romani Conti. The reason the bottle of wine is of...
John 14:15-26 – Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees...