REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 45: Transforming thankfulness. Thankfulness to God is the well proven way of warding off bitterness and feeling sorry for ourselves, just as gratitude expressed to others, wards off envy, unhappiness, pride and despondency. This has always been true and especially so…
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REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 44: Conciliatory confession. Looking at God [as we saw last week in adoration] often throws our own lives into stark relief. There is much to be ashamed of- much to repent of and confess. But as we bring our sins to God,…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 43: Adoration drives away Alarm. The pandemic has presented us with the opportunity to spend more time with God than with our friends. In stark contrast to brothers and sisters in developing nations, especially those where persecution is always just around…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 42: The Problem of Pleasure. There have been many books written to answer the questions we have about pain. God is often rejected because of what is seen as the problems of pain: why does a loving God allow pain and…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 41: Teach us to number our days. Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom [Psalm 90:12] are wise and timely words. Wise since wisdom is clearly better for us than folly, and timely…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 40: To our grandchildren. We are privileged to have 15 grandchildren, eight are aged 10 to 18 years and seven are younger. Given all the uncertainties surrounding the pandemic, the fact that five of the eight live in Victoria and the increasingly…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 39: Pandemical grace and treasures. Lord God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: grant us such a measure of your grace that, running in the way of your commandments, we may obtain your promises, and share…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 38: Blessed to be a blessing. A couple of weeks ago a friend responded to the Reflection with some helpful comments including an important text in regard to the pandemic. Gordon’s text deserves to be the first on a short list…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 37: Pandemic uncertainty and gospel surety. It seems that the longer the pandemic continues more and more uncertainties are taking hold among us. Even in WA where we have been very fortunate in so many ways this is evident. It is not…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 36: “I am not worried, because I am a Christian” How refreshing it was to hear the words on the ABC morning news last week, from a Melbourne business owner badly affected by the new shut-downs: I am not afraid, because…