“Do not be scared of the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority. … We believe them simply because people who did see them have left writings that tell us about them: in fact, on authority. A man who jibbed at authority in other things as some people do in religion would have to be content to know nothing all his life.”
— C.S. Lewis

God give the hardest tests to the strongest students

You can’t enter heaven unless you let Jesus enter you

Pope Celestine V … pope for four months …. changed the rules about a pope resigning and getting elected …. then locked up in prison by his successor!

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are “good” is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian”

“I created you without you, but I won’t save you without you” St Augustine

God’s love is perfect, infinite, unconditional. Knows no bounds…..and God loves us whether we return that love or not…..

But in returning that love we are given SO MUCH….grace upon grace

Preaching is opening up the word
And letting it break you open