Yes it’s coming up again. That Sunday – dreaded by fathers all over the UK – Mothering Sunday. The 14th of March this year.
No doubt it will be no different from last year or the year before: countless panic-stricken men queuing down at the late-night Tesco on Saturday night to buy last moment flowers, chocolates, perfume, which then have to be wrapped in time for little Tommy, Jenny and two-year old Samantha to present them to mum on Sunday morning. And mum, eating her once a year breakfast …
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Read more...God revealed Himself in the grandeur of the skies. Humans in their folly have rejected that revelation. So God has spoken again: in the powerful words of Scripture.
Read more...Jesus’s grace was able to transform tax collectors and sinners. The Pharisees had not understood that Jesus’s coming had brought radical, life-changing grace into the world. Nor could they understand the joy of those who experience that grace. Have we?
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