Posts Tagged ‘Shepherd

16
Sep
22

Visibility of the Clergy!

Mourning for Queen Elizabeth-II Regina and the Nation?

Are we seeing a reality of loss, a comfort to the people or just a procedure that has to be seen to be carried out every time a Monarch or a Prime minister passes?

The work of chaplaincy is now much needed as a million people may pass the coffin of our late Queen and be in deep grievance that death brings on us, if not recall to our own pain of personal loss?

Jesus was the great shepherd and He appointed the Disciples, who became Apostles and as the Ekklesia grew from the Way, much more was required in Church office to care for the respective flocks and not lord it over others vulnerable or not!

But we are all sinners and will fail as many do to money, to adultery, to theft, to hurting and exploiting others, if not the cases of sexual abuse and murder! Vows are not kept and many are flippant in their responsibilities accepting men who feel they are woman, while denouncing woman from the pulpit and breaking with Biblical teaching to self-achievement over the dying to self and obedience?

Jeremiah 23:2, John 3:3-21, 10:1-14, Acts 20:28, Hebrews 4:12-13, 9:26, 13:4.

06
Dec
13

Christmas. Part-Three.

For the lonely.

Many people make a point to miss out on ‘Christmas, because it is not a time for them due to lonliness and the feelings of rejection. That is one of the reasons the angels appeared to the shephers in the fields, the other that the ancestor of Jesus was King Davis. David started out as a shepherd.

This Christmas our challenge should be to look out for the lonley in community and Church, even within our own family groups. Christmas is a time to put aside our differences. Charles Dickens ‘Christmas Carol has old Scrooge being welcomed by his nephew.

1 Samuel 16:7-13,    Luke 2:8-20.




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