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Reflections from Ghent

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Religion & Spirituality
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Thinking about God. Wrestling with Scripture. Engaging with our world today.
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Not dead yet – Ash Wednesday & Lent

“I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.” ― G.K. Chesterton , Manalive Matthew 6:1-6,16-18 https://reflectionsfromghent.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/14feb2018-ash-wednesday-not-dead-yet-14022018-14-49.mp3 Thankfully, we are not dead yet, but are we truly living?...

Feb 14, 2018

From Ashes to Easter week 7 – Victory (Acts 10:34-43)

Our reading this week comes from the Acts of the Apostles 10:34-43 – Peter and the disciples make a new confession of faith. https://reflectionsfromghent.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/acts-10-34-43-eng.mp3

Mar 30, 2015

From Ashes to Easter Week 7 – Victory

Finally… we’ve reached the ultimate goal – The Resurrection! Hallelujah! Ring bells! Sing for joy! Jump and shout! Death loses. Sin is defeated. The powers of evil get their butts kicked. God wins. Light wins! Love wins! Jesus wins! If our team just won the championship, we wouldn’t sit there silently, looking serious. We’d be jumping up and down with joy. The same should be true at Easter. It is a victory with a capital V! But with his Resurrection, Jesus invites into a different kind of Victor...

Mar 30, 2015

Ashes to Easter week 6 – Sacrifice

Parents are said to make sacrifices for their children: working longer hours, saving money, moving elsewhere in order to have better prospects for the future. Sacrifices were used to try and remove their guilt and sin. They were also used to give thanks Jesus is called the lamb of God and the true Passover lamb, we remember his sacrifice every time that we share in Holy Communion at Church. Which means that through his sacrifice each of us, regardless of who or what we are, are called, welcomed,...

Mar 22, 2015

Ashes to Easter Week 5 – Rejection

Ps. 118 says, “The stone which the builder’s rejected has become the chief corner-stone.” What kind of stone gets rejected? A misshapen one? One that’s the wrong size? One that can’t be cut? Is that what people thought about Jesus? That he and his message were misshapen, the wrong size or unbreakable? Because they did the same thing to him that they would with a useless stone – rejection. Our reflection this week considers how Jesus responds to this rejection? With forgiveness. And the music is ...

Mar 15, 2015
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