Author: Fanny

We’re already almost at the end of this Easter season, next week we will celebrate the feast of the Ascension and the week after, we’ll have Pentecost! It also means that we are almost done with the lessons from the Book of Acts every Sunday. Now we have been reading this Book for a few…

Hearing the lesson from the Book of Acts this morning, it might be easy to overlook the fact that it is one of the most important passages of the New Testament, some have even said: One of the most important passages in the whole Bible. Indeed we have here, again, quite a strange story with…

So we have quite a story this week, don’t we? As I am studying the Book of Acts, I really enjoyed an introduction to this book that went like this: If you’re too rational a person, Acts is probably not going to work for you. In fact, as we make our way through its different…

Today, for the second week, we continue our journey in the Book of Acts as we will do throughout this Easter season. The passage we have just heard this morning may sound familiar to us, this story of Paul’s dramatic encounter with Christ on the road to Damascus (You may have noticed that the Apostle…

This Easter season, we’re going to spend some time reading from the Book of Acts: During our Bible study on Wednesday for those who are able to attend, and also every Sunday at church. You may have noticed that this morning, we actually didn’t have a lesson from the Old Testament. Rather each Sunday until…

So there is this (true) story about a preacher who gets super stressed every year about his Easter sermon. He’s super stressed not only because it’s his big day, this is this one time of the year when his church is completely full, but also because he has this kind of annoying parishioner who only…

Because we celebrate the Eucharist so often in our churches, basically every Sunday, I wonder if we don’t have a tendency to forget that it’s this one time thing in the Gospel. This is Jesus’s last supper with his disciples, his farewell dinner right before he is arrested and put to death. And so if…

The passage of the Gospel we have heard this morning is considered as one of the most beautiful stories Jesus has ever told. One of the most beautiful if not the most beautiful one. It is known as the “Parable of the Prodigal Son”. “Prodigal”, of course, should not be confounded with “prodigy”, because it…

One of the things I said I wanted to explore with you during this Lent was the many ways in which the Scriptures teach us how to deal with evil, to resist and overcome evil. In this regard, I think we have a great example of that with this passage from the New Testament, where…

If you were at church last week, you probably have noticed the stark contrast we have between the Gospel we have heard then and the passage we have today: From the mountaintop and the glory of the Transfiguration to the wilderness, where we encounter a famished and exhausted Jesus. But we’re actually reading backwards: If…