Category Archives: Pastors Messages

It’s easy to give thanks when our hearts feel full and grateful – when our will is engaged. Often though, we don’t feel gratitude without nudging our understanding. We need to reflect and count our blessings.

What we Notice – Since we are what we pay attention to, it can be useful to reflect on what we notice. Erik discusses how we can start by observing what we pay attention to and choose to redirect that attention

Many people imagine that power is a matter of being able to command one’s outer world as one wishes. It’s a matter of being able to accomplish one’s goals. It’s a matter of being able to command the needed resources – money, time, opportunity, tools, workers.

What makes the New Church new is not merely the teaching that Jesus Christ is the one God, it is the explanation of how it could be that a person who walked and slept on earth, is also the God of the universe.

A human being is not born for the sake of self but for the sake
of others. That is, they are born not to live for theirself alone
but for others. Otherwise there could be no cohesive society,
nor any good in it.

At Christmas we celebrate the Lord’s birth as the coming of the light. Part of celebrating Easter involves honouring the Lord for engaging in temptation for our sakes. So let’s look at what that means. A temptation is an attack on a love, and the Lord’s love was for the salvation of the human race.

Part of the message of Easter is that the Lord is more powerful than the seeming darkness. There was no darker time in history than the Lord’s crucifixion, and yet He overcame. Erik shares his thoughts on the War in Ukraine.

What do we do when we are suddenly faced with evil in our lives or in the world? How do we see the Lord’s role in allowing evil when He has all power? And what can we do about what we see and experience?

A runner gains capacity by actually running – actually exercising his or her lungs and legs. The good that flows in with us is only as great as is our effort.