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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Dornie Castle, Scotland SEASON OF CREATION For the month of September, we generally follow the Season of Creation, now celebrated worldwide and the brainchild of Normal Habel, a Lutheran minister based in South Australia. The Season of Creation is a time to renew our relationship with our Creator and all creation through celebration, conversion, and…
Jesus said, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hurt you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”
Love is big enough to serve us all, to be present to us all , to fill us all and to consume us all.
There is enough of God for each of us and we don’t need to ‘draw lines’ between us and someone else.
Jesus is at it again, offering a mysterious and perplexing teaching about ‘Prayer’.
There are many ways at looking at this parable. The Widow teaches us about God and ourselves and it teaches the way of Jesus.
Sometimes we may be the widow, sometimes the judge!.
John was God’s bulldozer! He prepared a road in the wilderness.
God chooses unlikely people in unlikely places to bring about his purposes.
‘Deserts’ for many people are very different places – places with guilt, disappointment, loss.
The way out of deserts is repentance then forgiveness, to bring about Grace and Peace.
Most have some difficulties in their lives. Jesus’s point was, that rather than seeking prosperity and ease, if we desire to follow after him then we may have to pay a price for Christ’s sake. Currently the trend is to follow your own heart but Jesus says deny yourself and follow him.
The 3 persons of the Trinity are in perfect relationship, what one has, they all have, one in purpose, one in will.
God operates in a way that is completely unselfish, 3 persons but one being, so as to pour out God’s love and justice.
The God we worship, the trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is a God of hope, love, forgiveness and justice.