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...

GOOSE BUMPS AND GOD – Rev Maurice Fearns

  ‘Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God’. Exodus 3:6. We get goose bumps when we are confronted with something that strikes fear in us, or in complete contrast, when we see, or hear something that touches our heart filling us with emotional,...