Posts tagged world

Follow Christ out of the world

Sunday 26 June 2022

Sometimes it is all to easy — even without thinking — to find ourselves following the voice of the world at large. The way of discipleship isn’t the easy way and may well lead us into a position where we find ourselves in direct opposition to the world.

Come, bring the prisoner out of the prison-house

Monday 6 December 2021

We are reminded this Advent to ask, ‘What is holding me captive?’ or ‘What am I afraid to let go of that hinders me walking more closely to Christ?’

Fishing vessels offshore in a heavy sea, Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630–1708), 1684; Minneapolis Institute of Arts

In Christ we have nothing to fear

Sunday 20 June 2021

In Christ we can stand in the midst of the storm, as a new creation in him, in whom we have triumphed over sin and death in his passion and resurrection.