OUR IMAGES OF JESUS

Jesus asked “Who do you say that I am?” Mt.16:15 What is your answer? Who is Jesus for you? We each have an image formed by what we have heard, read, seen in paintings, or perhaps experienced in a mystical way. His physical life on earth took place centuries ago in...

LONELINESS – SILENCE – SOLITUDE by Rev Maurice Fearns

Elijah replied “I am the only one left” 1 Kings 19:10. Jesus said: “I am the vine, you are the branches” John 15:9 Wherever I go as a shopper, driver, diner, passenger or spectator, I see people old and young, wealthy and poor, employed or retired carrying a cell...

CREATED FOR RELATIONSHIPS – Rev Maurice Fearns

God said, ”It is not good for man to be alone; I’ll make him a helper, a companion”. Gen.2:18 TM.  Jesus said “Love the Lord God with all your passion, prayer, intelligence and energy….and love your neighbour as well as you love yourself”. Mk.12:31 TM. These two...

BEING AWARE – Rev Maurice Fearns

Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. Gen.28:16 TM. Jesus came and walked along with them. But they were not able to recognize who he was. Luke 24:16 TM ‘All that we experience – or know, think, imagine, remember, feel, and dream – we experience...

QUENCHING OUR THIRST – Rev Maurice Fearns

I want to drink God, deep drafts of God. I’m thirsty for God-alive. Ps.42:1 TM We all get thirsty. It is a basic, bodily function which must be satisfied. Without water our body would die. To express his deepest thirst the psalmist uses the metaphor of a deer which...

WHOLENESS & HOLINESS – Rev Maurice Fearns

What you’re after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new true life. Psalm 51:6 TM The Methodist Church has placed great emphasis on John Wesley’s teaching on holiness. As I grew up the life style of the members in the Methodist Church in the...