Category: Table Talk
My Will Be Done
by Mathew Block If you are anything like me, you are beginning to grow weary of the restrictions on normal life which the pandemic has brought. For many months, we have been directed to avoid social gatherings and to stay home—to refrain from visiting friends…
Go in Hope
by Mathew Block “But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.” – Matthew 26:32 That was the promise of Jesus to the disciples shortly before His arrest. He would be killed and buried, but nevertheless He would rise again and…
Something New
by Mathew Block “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19). For those sitting in exile, the prospect of something new was the answer…
Newborn Hope
by Mathew Block You are out walking in a place you do not know well. The sun has set. A chill wind begins to blow. You want to go home, but do not know the way. You are at the mercy of the night. Of…
A Word of Peace in Troubled Times
by Mathew Block “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in Me.” – John 14:1 It’s easy to be troubled at a time like this. Health experts are warning that Canada is on the cusp of a second wave of COVID-19….
Together, One
by Mathew Block “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves…