A Cup with Grace: Recent Episodes
Jaco Gerber
My name is Jaco Gerber and I am no great thinker, just another voice in the ocean of Christian thinking. Every week I will explore Sunday lectionary texts and weekly context inspired devotions.
We are part of something truly wonderful and are called to be active participants of a royal priesthood of all believers.
The disciples are huddled in a locked room feeding each others fear and anxiety. Into that anxious moment, Jesus enters. Into our anxious moments, Jesus enters.
We are just like Barabbas as Jesus takes our place. What does Good Friday mean to us today?
As we journey to the cross with Christ we listen to the voices of those who had a voice in the journey. Today we listen to Mary
We journey with Jesus into Jerusalem as a crowd breaks out in praise for their coming Messiah. It is the unique voices in the crowd that challenge our worship in church
Jesus is the Vine and we are the branches but sometimes the branches need to be trimmed.
Luke 13:1-9 sees Jesus meeting people in a time of disaster and tells them about a fig tree to allay their fears, worries and doubts.
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine, or so the song goes about Jesus the light of the world.
Through lent I am looking at the I am sayings of Jesus and this week we look at I am the bread of Life in John 6. The people keep coming for another sign and into that Jesus makes this remarkable revelation about himself.
Psalm 51 reminds us of David's failures and desire for reconciliation with God. As we journey through lent we take a journey of reconciliation with God.
Luke 6 reminds us of the wonder of transfiguration. We see on a mountaintop a great miracle and hear the voice of God for us today.
What they don't know can't hurt them, or so the saying goes. What does scripture have to say about our culture of silence around injustice?
Luke 6 calls us to love our enemies in one of the most shocking statements of Jesus ministry. Could this statement call us to another way of living?
Psalm 111:2 calls us to ponder on the works of God. I wonder, if we ever wonder, about the things God has done for us in our past.
Luke 6:12-26 is the moment Jesus calls his disciples his apostles for the first time. It is the start of something new even though it reminds everyone of the past. It turns everything upside down or maybe the right way up.
The story of Levi is the story of making oneself available to God's call of follow me. Where is God calling you to? Luke 5:27-28
This week we look at 1 Corinthians 16 verse 13. We reflect on a young man and his courageous claim that Jesus loves me.
We all love the underdog, we all love it when David beats Goliath. We all from time to time feel like we are being done in by and are being persecuted for some what reason and hope to be the David that beats Goliath. What does a persecuted people look like?
We all have doubts sometimes and are skeptical of the goodness of God in a world that seems to be burning. We look today at John 1:43-46 and Nathanael's healthy skepticism.
This is my last Sermon at Randfontein Methodist Church. We look at the lessons the congregation has taught me over the years.
Every now and then I might go on an impassioned rant about something that was upsetting. This devotion is one of those as I heard a story of the damage done by prosperity gospel evangelicals on the life of a family.
Its Sunday the 31st of October and the South African Elections are taking place. We look at what God has to say about being obedient as we look at Psalm 119.
John 14:15-21
Love is a word clouded in context. There are lots of ways to look at, understand, express, use and misuse this four letter word. So when God calls himself love we have to stop and wonder what that means. If Jesus says if you love me, well then we need to stop and see what he is talking about.
Acts 7:55-60
We dive into our last week of a series about the early church. This week highlights the crisis of the early church and the steps they took in remaining faithful in difficult times.
Acts 2:42-47
This is week 3 of a four week look at the early church which was formed, forged and faithful in a time of crisis. We look today at what is a perfect church in light of this early movements witness of God in troubled times.
Acts 2:14a, 36-41
Week 2 of our look into the starting of the early church. A church that was born in a time of crisis speaking to a world in crisis due to Corvid 19. What does this fast growing movement teach us about what it means to be a member?
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
This is week one in a four week series looking at the start of the Church in the book of Acts. A movement that was started in a troubled and difficult time. If we want to know what church is all about in a time of crisis it is the best place to start.
The early church started in the waiting.