What makes Christians different and what makes Christianity distinct from any other religion? It is grace – treating others, not as they deserve, but as God wishes them to be […]
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I'm simply a computer geek who has been in that industry for a couple of decades now and loves living in Brixham since moving here a little over ten years ago. I'm helping out with this site and will do all I can to make it successful. I have lots of fun ideas but I'm sure that you do to, so let's have them please... No, seriously let us know what you would like to see and the sorts of thing you want this site to be capable of doing (making coffee excluded, I've been trying to do that for years)Where virtue abounds, the reward too abounds…
Ambrose (339-397 A.D), an early church father and bishop of Milan, links the beatitudes with the four cardinal virtues which strengthen us in living a life of moral excellence. He […]
Read moreGod chooses ordinary people
The miraculous catch of the fish tells us an important truth about how God works in and through each of us for his glory. God expects of us greater things […]
Read moreThe steadfast love of the Lord
When Jesus first proclaimed the good news of God’s kingdom to his own townspeople at Nazareth (Luke 4:23-27), he did not hesitate to confront them with their sin of indifference […]
Read moreCandlemas
This feast emphasizes Jesus’ first appearance in the Temple more than Mary’s purification. Under the Mosaic Law, a woman was ritually “unclean” for 40 days after childbirth, when she was […]
Read moreWine of the new covenant
In today’s Gospel reading we see the first public sign and miracle which Jesus per-formed. The Lord Jesus brought great blessing and joy to a newlywed couple and their wedding […]
Read moreAsk him to fill you with his Holy Spirit
John the Baptist said that the Messiah would “baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” Fire in biblical times was associated with God and with his action in the […]
Read moreJew and Gentile alike will find the Lord
If Jesus truly is who he claims to be, the eternal Son of God and Saviour of the world, then why is he not recognized by everyone who hears his […]
Read moreI must be in my Father’s house
Jews were expected to travel to Jerusalem for the high feasts each year (Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles). Jesus undoubtedly travelled with his parents every year from Nazareth to Jerusalem for the […]
Read moreWithout God’s Son nothing could exist
There is a certain paradox for those “blessed” by the Lord. Mary was given the “blessedness” of being the mother of the Son of God. That blessedness also would become […]
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