Reflection for the Third Sunday of Trinity 2021

Seeing with New Eyes A Different Angle on the World around Us This week, in my assembly for St. Thomas’s School, we were looking at this painting with some discussion questions: What details can you see? What does it feel like? Why? What makes this painting so special? It’s as if the artist Vincent Van …

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Reflection for the Second Sunday of Trinity 2021

The Eyes of Love 1 Samuel 16.6 – 13. Samuel is sent to Jesse’s farm to  anoint a new king “6 When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, ‘Surely the Lord’s anointed is now before the Lord.’  7But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because …

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Reflection for the First Sunday of Trinity 2021

Killing Me Softly How does Jesus change an Angry Life? This is a brief overview of the life of John Newton who eventually became the Vicar of Olney, and wrote the  wonderful hymn “Amazing Grace” Once Newton had turned to the Jesus, how would the Lord change a life full of resentment, hatred, anger, abuse, …

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