Isaiah  2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19   Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his Name.…Sing the praises of the Lord, for he has done great things.   King Cyrus has issued the decree, and the Children of Israel have come to the end of their exile in Babylon. The time has come to return home, but there is a problem – things have changed. When they were first taken from their homeland, the Jewish people had grieved.   “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wep

Luke 6:20-31   Good morning!  It’s All Saints Day, the day that marks a definite change in the tone of the Church year. We are coming to the end of what we call the Sundays after Pentecost, or Ordinary Time – we have only November left to go before the end of the Church year itself. All our liturgically green Sundays up till now have been about Jesus’ life on earth, His ministry among us, but today the focus shifts. Today, before the year ends gloriously on Christ the King Su

Jeremiah 31:27-34    Luke 18:1-8   Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.   Prayer is something with which we are all familiar.  We pray in church and at home. But what does Jesus mean - that we need to do it always? And what could cause us to lose heart? What exactly is prayer?   The Church has gone to the trouble of defining for us the various forms of prayer.  Adoration: Praising God.  Confession:  Asking for God’s forgive