LOVE Expressed?

St. Valentines Day.

The romantics in us will perhaps mark this day with the card, roses, box of something nice and the meal? Some will do it as an appreciation of the wife/husband other to get that partner into bed for a randy night of passion?

But this is not what St. Valentine is all about, but rather expressing Christian love to those who are without, the poor, the immigrant, the refuges, the homeless and so the list can go on and on? What is involved is putting yourself out for others, a meal, a blanket, clean clothing, a chat, showing interest and concern for what they have are and possibly might go through!

It about showing the love of Jesus, if what we claim is real in that we know the Lord Jesus as our saviour? We have to show His compassion, because any of us could fall and end up on the streets, be homeless or addicted to something?

Matthew 9:36, 15:32, Ephesians 2:4,  1 John 4:10-11, 19.

Martyrs-Saints. One.

The Celtic Church.

When many Christians come to study Church history, they focus mostly on the division of Europe between the Eastern orthodox and the Western Roman Catholic. Some will occasionally look at the Armenian and the various Coptic's around the Middle-East and North-Africa, but all will fail to acknowledge the Celtic Church of the geographical term, the British Isles?

This is because it seems not to have a direct connection to the mass events of historical interest, when the truth be known that it is more important in relation for today than meets the eye? The influence of one man Patrick in Ireland would change direction for the Christian religion throughout Northern-Europe and this influence despite the various reformations would ultimately clash with other groups of the New world in the Americas hundreds of years later!

Matthew 3:12, Mark 16:15,  Romans 10:15, 1 Timothy 1:15.