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St Nicholas is now in the Care of Fr Christo (Christopher) Roberts until a permanent Priest is selected.
Prayer for the Vacancy of the Parish Please Lord, call to this your church and ours a true shepherd, a minister of Christ; and make us, with the priest, a church joyful in worship and united in witness, working, caring, praising, loving to the glory of your name; through Jesus Christ our Lord
Dear Friends,
Greetings to you all in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ who calls us to follow him leaving other chores of our day to day life. Today, if we look at the passage of Romans 4, Paul is offering scriptural support for his doctrine of justification by faith; shorthand for justification by the grace of God manifested in Jesus Christ, and apprehended by faith. Paul does this by taking the story of Abraham as an example.
When God promised Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, Abraham was one hundred years old, and his wife Sarah was ninety years old. But Abraham took God at God’s word, being fully convinced that God was to do what God has promised.
Similarly, faith in the gospel means faith in God’s ability to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, that is, put ourselves right with God, make ourselves justified in the sight of God. This justifying faith accepts the fact that, in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves.
So friends, we need to know and understand that while we were yet sinners, we are justified by God’s grace through our faith in the risen Christ.
Shalom
Fr. Christo