What is your Focus this Lent?

Image via Wikipedia                         Were is your focus this Lent? On you or on Jesus. Lent is not about us, it is not about self-improvement, it is about Jesus, it's about New Birth, it's about New Life, it's about New Perseverance and New Death. New Birth …

Politically Sterile

The Christmas session is over, and the decorations are down, now starts the political session… Over the weekend I watched the ABC GOP Debates, if you can call them that. I was so mad that I found it hard to watch. The moderators were, well to put it simply, STUPID. They asked stupid questions, has …

I Thirst

“I Thirst” Jesus spoke these worlds from the cross, but do you think Jesus really mean that he wanted a drink? In his hour of need to do think he was thinking about a nice cold glass of wine? I think not. The simple phrase holds more meaning than volumes of books, Jesus used the …

Opportunities Lost

Each day we have new opportunities to praise our God, each hour we new opportunities to help our neighbor and each minute we have opportunities to choose what is right. But all too often we let these opportunities pass us by. We fill our lives with things of this world, things that really don’t matter, …

Delight

Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b R. (see 4) The Lord takes delight in his people. Sing to the LORD a new song of praise in the assembly of the faithful. Let Israel be glad in their maker, let the children of Zion rejoice in their king. R. The Lord takes delight in his people. …

Great Moments

We all have moments of greatness, moments where we shine, and show the true light of God. We all have them, some moments are truly the work of the Holy Spirit, and other moments we plan hard for, but they are moments all the same.   The Holy Spirit, in my opinion, likes to use …

Simple thoughts on God

Belowe is a short blog, with some  very simple thoughts on God....   Today is a grand day; it’s a day to celebrate, to give thanks and praise.   Today is a day of glory, a day of wonder and awe.   Today is the end of suffering and the start of salvation.   Today …

How Unworthy we are…

Praise God, For he has Risen... well soon anyway. We sometimes forget that each and every Easter we are not just remembering the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, but it is really happening again!  Easter is eternal, the for giveness of our sins was not a onetime thing, but rather God in his ultimate Glory has given us eternal forgiveness. …