Devotional

Dia dhuit ( Hello) , in Irish. Greetings from the Island of Ireland. Today, if I may, I would value you company in glancing at the Gospel story of Matthew. Chapter 10, verses 1-6. But I want to start in the previous chapter, chapter 9, verses 35-38. Looking at what Jesus said and done. How […]

Ata marie e hoa ma, rangimarie ki a koutou katoa. May peace be with you this morning friends. Today is the Feast day of Saint Thomas so our gospel text is John 20:24-29. In this text is the classic record of the well known doubting Thomas. Thomas who wouldn’t believe that Jesus was alive unless […]

En välsignad dag och Guds rika välsignelse till er alla. Today text from Matthew 7:15-20 is a tough one, in fact the whole chapter is a challenge to us all. It warns us about the false prophets, but the chapter starts off with warning us not to judge each other, and finishes with reminding us […]

Nga mihi mahana e hoa ma, rangimarie ki a koutou katoa. Warm greetings again friends and peace be with you all. Assalam alaykum! The Wednesday gospel text from the lectionary this week is Matthew 6:1-6 and 16-18. We have been back in Matthew reading the Sermon on the Mount for most of the last 10 […]

Womin-Jeka, (which is the local Wurundjeri indigenous phrase for welcome in my part of Australia) sisters and brothers and warm greetings from a mild Melbourne winter. I trust all is well in your world. Today’s gospel text comes from Matthew 5:13-20, where Jesus instructs his followers on being salt and light before going on to […]

Nga mihi mahana e hoa ma, rangimarie ki a koutou katoa! Warm greetings friends, peace be with you all. Today our gospel text is from John 17:11-19, part of a prayer Jesus prayed for us. This is a beautiful prayer where Jesus is pleading with his Father to care for us as he is about […]

Greetings, this weeks reading comes from John 16:12-15, the work of the Holy Spirit. It is said that the Pentecostal stream of Christianity was birthed at the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1905. It is the fourth major strand of the Christian religion, following on from Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism. However, many […]

Greetings once more from Leicester, as we look at a passage of warning, encouragement, and hope, from the words of John 15: 1-8. (The picture is from Switzerland, having rode through the hillside vineyards). Over twenty years ago we acquired five gooseberry bushes, which produced extremely large sweet gooseberries, they were very good fruit in […]

Nga mihi mahana i tenei ata e hoa ma; rangimarie ki a koutou katoa. Warm greetings friends this morning; peace be with you all. Our gospel today is from John 12:44-50. Headed up ‘The final challenge’ in our Bibles. These words are the last words in the public space that Jesus spoke as a ‘free […]

Hi Folks, Greetings from the Island of Ireland. The photo attached to today’s offering from me, was taken about two weeks back. In the photo myself and my GSCMC Brother from Australia, Mike Cox, on a journey in Southern Ireland. When riding on the Motorway, or Highway in my country the Law that governs our […]