25th September 2022 Year C – Pentecost 16 “You Can’t Take it with You”
What to do with a car door!
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What to do with a car door!
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Rev Jon Humphries explores the striking contrast between the gentle, image of Jesus we learned as children and the, challenging Jesus revealed in the Gospel.
We are invited to wrestle with a deeper, more dynamic understanding of who Jesus is—and what it means for us to truly follow Him.
Following Jesus is not an easy choice. It may require us to make Jesus our ‘Top Priority’ and be willing to give up anything for God.
However it may not be an ‘either’ /’or’ choice but finding a balance in our commitment and making Jesus the foundation of all we are trying to do so we can say “Amen”.
Following the resurrection the disciples were ‘shell-shocked’ and wondered what they might now do with their lives.
Fishing was something they knew. Jesus re-met them there and asked if they loved Him more than life as fisherman?
Jesus gave Peter a mission. Jesus keeps coming back to us and asks us to prove our love by serving Him.
The disciples just followed Jesus – no questions asked! They wanted to “see the Father” he spoke of.
However Jesus sometimes really confused them with his teaching.
He went out and changed the world and showed the work of God and the Holy Spirit to all
and told them to go out and do likewise. What did all that mean?
Christmas is just around the corner! Advent starts a new season and new year for the Christian Church next week.
Today we see Jesus as the ‘King of the Jews’ on a Cross, from which He still speaks words of forgiveness and grace to those who were mocking Him, all could hear. Jesus had qualities very
different to earthly kings.
Our actions will follow from where our heart leads us to look and see, and what we think about.
What we focus on and what we fill our time and our minds with has a direct effect on what our
instant responses to people and situations will be.