Sharing some thoughts

  Today is the day that is the reason for our faith.     The miraculous birth of Jesus, his incredible earthly life and of course his death on the cross all help to shape our faith and remind us of his amazing love for us, but today, the day of resurrection is what absolutely gives our faith foundation and meaning.    It is the reason we continue to celebrate an event of 2000 years ago and will do so into eternity… If Jesus didn’t physically rise from the dead, then our faith is hollow… Jesus, the way, the truth, the life, our risen Saviour, is the reason for our faith…    And our readings this morning obviously reflect this great truth…    From the Old Testament Prophecy of Isaiah (25:6-9) we are given a wonderful picture of all people feasting together celebrating the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, celebrating the defeat of death forever, celebrating the end of any earthly sadness or torment or pain.    There, on ...

This is a series of 5 addresses given at Compline in St Mary's Church Swansea through Lent 2021 PRAYER & TRANQUILITY  The reading  from the gospel according to Mark Ch 1 vs. 35.    ‘In the morning, while it was still very dark, he (Jesus) got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed…’     When I was in Theological College (and I don’t need you to show how impressed you are by this !!) I was Senior Student for a year – it sounds lot more grand than it was, but one of the achievements that I was most proud of was reducing the time of silence within the morning and evening prayer service – after each of the readings we used to have what seemed like an eternity of silence…. I hated it – I am not good at silence – my mind seems to just wander off in all kinds of directions although most of my thoughts are centred upon my desire for the silence to end soon.    But whilst I was proud of myself at the time, I do actually recognise...