In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus enacted a part of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’, ‘Your will be done’, and he did it alone.
How can we learn to pray, trusting in God, when things are not as we would hope and we feel we are facing them alone?
In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples to be protected from the evil one, to be full of joy, to be sanctified and to be unified.
Could he still be praying those things for us now and how might we part of the answer?
John 17 is the most revealing of all prayers: it’s a window into the intimacy shared between Jesus and his Father before the creation of the world…
Faith in Jesus means nothing if you don’t love Jesus’ friends.
And love means nothing if it isn’t accompanied by action.
It’s what we do, not what we say.
Most of us suffer from Imposter Syndrome, the whisper that says we’re not good enough. And the voice isn’t telling lies. We mess up too often.
But that’s not the final truth…
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Religious people have become experts at making spiritual practises complicated. They get twisted by our motives as well as the lengths we go to make ourselves look better than we are.
What if we could just keep it simple? More normal? What would be gained?
Israel knew that murder was wrong – but Jesus puts his finger on the contempt we can feel for one another when they don’t match up to our expectations.
Think of the outrage on social media at times.
He warns us of the consequences of those reactions, urges us to put things right with one another and uses an everyday example (making a last minute court settlement) to demonstrate how important our relationships are.
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Chapter 3 of Nehemiah includes the names of people who worked selflessly for the sake of others.
Some were not particularly prepared; some seemed to have a better deal than others. Together they rebuild.
They have a memory of how things should be, and they are determined to all work towards the restoration of what they had once known.
You may not feel equipped or trained, but you are given a place. What does it look like when you feel that your ‘place’ is not what you would want?
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