Eschew Anger

Most of our anger is connected to ourselves. James warns us that ‘human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.’ (James 1:19) It is right to be angry on behalf of the oppressed, to fight for justice and fairness and to oppose injustice and...

Eschew Self-Importance

One of the most important lessons we can learn is that we are valuable and important to God (we are made in His image and He sent His only Son to save us), but we are not the centre of the universe. That place belongs to God alone. We need to eschew a false sense of...

Eschewing and Embracing

Over this Lenten period, we will be looking at things we should eschew and things we should embrace. To eschew means to abstain from something, to deliberately avoid doing something. To embrace means to hold something close, to accept something enthusiastically. There...

Lent Reflections (1)

Lent is the season before Easter, the 40 days preceding our celebration of Jesus’s death and resurrection. It’s traditionally a time of reflection and renunciation as we prepare our hearts for the greatest revelation of love and power the world has ever known. Many...