As adults we learn quickly what we need to do the things we want to do. We need money to live on, a job to get the money and skills to get the job. But what do we need to get to heaven?

Everyone can benefit from the support of a good mentor. However, as disciples, called to do the work of Christ in the world, we don’t just need a good mentor, we need a God Mentor. Let’s explore together what it means to have God for a mentor, especially in these difficult and challenging days.

Reflection on the scriptures - Luke 8:26-39

We know God's love is unconditional. But the conditional world in which we live can make holding onto and living into that truth challenging. Let us once again be reminded of God's love and consider how to keep that unconditional love in the forefront of our lives.

The Power of Pentecost is the promise of the Holy Spirit, unleashed in our lives, every day. Our power to believe in the Holy Spirit makes Pentecost not about an event, but an experience.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends." (John 15:12, 13)

With long-held religious beliefs in tow, Judas imagines he’s earned a VIP pass with God. Yet Jesus declares God’s love includes those not in line with Judas’ personal creed. With belief in Christ - not in my creed - we may live by the affirmation that “God loves the world”. And even if we find it hard to have faith in God, God believes in us, and in those not like us.

This week we return to a Lenten text so we can be reminded what our post Resurrection work should be. A work rooted in love and manifest by action…a sacrificial love. What does that type of love mean for us?

The good shepherd discourse makes clear the connection between Jesus and the church, the body of believers who profess Christ. What are we being called to do as those believers? It may not be what you think!

We as Christians live our lives responding to Jesus’ “Follow Me”. But looking at this very familiar passage, dare I ask, “follow you where, Jesus”? Together let us discover our roles as followers.