Brad Heine

Never Giving Up

The scripture lessons this morning highlight the enduring spirit modelled by Jesus Christ. Job 1:13-16, 20-22 One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15 and

15 September, 2024
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God’s Not Angry

To take out your anger on someone means to treat that person badly because you feel frustrated or upset. Although we deserve God’s anger for our misdeeds, the readings today explain how he spares us from his anger by taking it out on himself in the body of Jesus. Isaiah 53:4-6 Surely he took up […]

11 February, 2024
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Found

Our meditation for the last Sunday of the church will be on three parables of the lost in Luke chapter 15. Once again, this week, the extended narrative of the gospel passage is divided into two readings. Parables of the Lost according to St. Luke, the fifteenth chapter, verses 3-24 Luke 15: 3-10 Then Jesus […]

26 November, 2023
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In Persecutions, I am Strong…

Nineteenth century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is believed to have first penned the saying, “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Today we hear in the scripture lessons, from many centuries earlier, about how God strengthens us in persecution. Deuteronomy 30:4-10 Even if you have been