A reflection on Ephesians 4:1-16 for Sunday, August 23, 2020 at Mosaic Baptist Church I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been Continue Reading
See and Come Alive: See the Unseen
A reflection on Ephesians 3:14-21 for Sunday, August 15, 2020 at Mosaic Baptist Church. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes Continue Reading
See and Come Alive: God’s Masterplan – the End of Hostility
A reflection on Ephesians 2 for Sunday, August 9 at Mosaic Baptist Church. You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, Continue Reading
See & Come Alive: See the Eternal God
A Reflection on Ephesians 1 for Sunday, August 2, 2020 at Mosaic Baptist Church. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ Continue Reading
Taking a Spiritual Perspective: The Servant and the Hireling
A Reflection on 1 Kings 18:1-16 for Sunday, July 12, 2020 at Mosaic Baptist Church. After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year of the drought, saying, ‘Go, present Continue Reading
Taking a Spiritual Perspective: Training a Servant
A Reflection on 1 Kings 17:1-7 for Sunday, July 5 at Mosaic Baptist Church Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, ‘As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before Continue Reading
Taking a Spiritual Perspective: Legacy of the Kings
A Reflection on 1 Kings 11:29-33 & 38 for Sunday, June 28, 2020 at Mosaic Baptist Church ...when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Continue Reading
Taking a Spiritual Perspective: What’s the Point of a Temple?
A Reflection on 1 Kings 5:13-6:14 for Sunday, June 21 at Mosaic Baptist Church King Solomon conscripted forced labour out of all Israel; the levy numbered thirty thousand men. He sent them Continue Reading
Taking a Spiritual Perspective: Compromising for the Kingdom.
A Reflection on 1 Kings 11:1-8 for Sunday, June 14 at Mosaic Baptist Church King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Continue Reading
A Spiritual History: A Reflection on 1 Kings 14:19 and Deuteronomy 17:14-20
For Sunday, June 7 at Mosaic Baptist Church And the remaining words of Jeroboam and all that he did - are these not written in the words of the book of the days of Judah's kings? 1 Kings Continue Reading
Living the Spirit: Pentecost
A reflection on Acts 2:1-21 for the Day of Pentecost, May 31, 2020 at Mosaic - and around the world! Now when the Day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in the same place. And suddenly Continue Reading
Living the Spirit: Embracing God’s Gifts
A Reflection on 1 Corinthians 12:1-14 for Sunday, May 24, 2020 at Mosaic Baptist Church Now about the spiritual, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you Continue Reading
Living the Spirit: Bearing God’s Fruit
A Reflection on Galatians 5:13-26 for Sunday, May 17 at Mosaic Baptist Church For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for Continue Reading
Living the Resurrection: Daily Rising with Christ
A Sermon on Romans 6:1-14 for May 3, 2020 at Mosaic Baptist Church Over the last few weeks we’ve been considering the death and resurrection of Jesus. We remembered and celebrated the events of Continue Reading
Promised Presence: A Reflection on John 14:15-21
(for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 17, 2020) ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is Continue Reading
Living the Spirit: Hearing God’s Voice – A Reflection on Joel 2:25-32
For Sunday, May 10 at Mosaic Baptist Church I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten,the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent against Continue Reading
Knowing the Father: A Reflection on John 14:1-14
(for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 10, 2020) Photo: Jude Beck (Unsplash.com) ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house Continue Reading
A Familiar Voice: A Reflection on John 10:1-10
(for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 3, 2020) ‘Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The Continue Reading
A Final Prayer: A Reflection on John 17:1-11
(for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 24, 2020) After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, ‘Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify Continue Reading
The Gathering Christ: A Reflection on Luke 24:13-35 (for the Third Sunday of Easter, April 26, 2020)
Photo: Mike Keneally (Unsplash.com) Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things Continue Reading
Living the Resurrection: Rising – A Reflection on Romans 6:1-14 (for Sunday, May 3, 2020)
What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptised Continue Reading
Living the Resurrection: Hoping – A Reflection on 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 & 26-28 (for Sunday, April 26, 2020)
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been Continue Reading
Living the Resurrection: Believing – A Reflection on John 20:19-31 (for the Second Sunday of Easter – April 19, 2020)
Photo: Emily Morter (Unsplash.com) When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came Continue Reading
Seeing With Jesus: Seeing the Empty Tomb – A Reflection on Mark 16:1-8 (for Easter Sunday)
Photo: Mitchell Orr (Unsplash.com) When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on Continue Reading
Burying their Dead: A Reflection on John 19:38-42 (For Saturday in Holy Week)
After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him Continue Reading
Seeing With Jesus: What Do You See? A Reflection on Mark 8:27-33 & 9:30-32 (For Good Friday)
Photo: Joe Beck (Unsplash.com) Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ And they answered him, Continue Reading
A Cosmic Kneeling: A Reflection on John 13:1-17 (For Maundy Thursday)
Photo: Krists Luhaers (Unsplash.com) Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the Continue Reading
Dinner Downer: A Reflection on John 13:21-32 (For Wednesday in Holy Week)
Brett Jordan (Unsplash.com) After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, ‘Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.’ The disciples looked at one another, Continue Reading
Visioning Jesus: A Reflection on John 12:20-36 (for Tuesday in Holy Week)
Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, ‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus.’ Philip went and Continue Reading
Extravagant Beauty: A Reflection on John 12:1-11 (For Monday in Holy Week)
Photo: Prateek Pratyal (Unsplash.com) Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha Continue Reading
Seeing With Jesus: What Do You See? A Reflection on Mark 8:22-26
Photo by Pixabay (Freephotos.cc) They came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the Continue Reading
Seeing With Jesus: What Do the Old Guard See? A Reflection on Mark 12:1-12
Photo: Priscilla Du Preez (Unsplash.com) Then he began to speak to them in parables. ‘A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watch-tower; then he Continue Reading
Seeing With Jesus: What Do Others See? #2 – A Reflection on Mark 10:46-52
Photo: Viktor Talashuk (Unsplash.com) They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the Continue Reading
Seeing with Jesus: What do Others See? #1 – A Reflection on Mark 10:17-31
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon (Unsplash.com) As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus Continue Reading
Seeing with Jesus: What do the Spirits See? A Reflection on Mark 5:1-20
Sunday, March 15, 2020 The Exorcism of the Gerasenes Demoniac - by Sebastien Bourdon (1653-1657). They came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when he had Continue Reading
Seeing with Jesus: What did Jesus See? # 2 – A Reflection on Mark 2:13-17.
Reflection #2 for Sunday, March 8, 2020 (Photo: Jon Tyson, Unsplash.com) Jesus went out again beside the lake; the whole crowd gathered around him, and he taught them. As he was Continue Reading
Seeing with Jesus: What Did Jesus See? #1 – A Reflection on Mark 2:1-12.
Reflection #1 for Sunday, March 8, 2020 Photo: Edi Libedinsky (Unsplash.com) When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. So many gathered Continue Reading
The Heart of the Church: Integrating Faith into Our Everyday – A Reflection on Joshua 24: 14-28
Sunday, March, 1, 2020 Photo: Tim Mossholder (Unsplash.com). ‘Now therefore revere the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors Continue Reading
The Heart of the Church: Impact Beyond these Walls – A Reflection on Galatians 5:1-14
Perry Grone: Unsplash.com For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be Continue Reading
The Heart of the Church: Deep and Authentic Relationships – A Reflection on Ephesians 2:11-22
So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— remember that Continue Reading