Aren’t weddings wonderful? They are an important time for the bride and groom to make a public declaration of their love and commitment to each other. They are also a time to create lasting memories.

Weddings can bring out the best and also the worst in people. Unfortunately, many of us have experienced wedding disasters or faux pas, and not just the bridegroom forgetting the wedding rings.

Have you ever experienced a situation when invited guests have not bothered or refused to attend a wedding feast? In today’s Gospel, a king had planned an A-lister event to celebrate his son’s wedding and still none of those invited turned up. The king then opens the invitation up to everyone his servants could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

This parable shows the immense generosity of the king, of our heavenly Father. Even the rejection of His offer does not stop the Father from sending out His invitation again and again. We can all rejoice in receiving His good gifts of forgiveness, and life, and salvation.

~ Malcolm Haynes (Lay Reader)

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Self-confidence mostly seems to be a good thing. Unless, of course, your confidence is completely misguided. The Apostle Paul had his spiritual self-confidence smashed to pieces by the risen Lord Jesus, and it was something for which Paul was forever thankful. Now, this wasn't a case of Jesus cutting down tall poppies. Instead, he wants to cut out any self-righteousness in all of us - the sort of spiritual self-confidence that pushes God away and keeps us focussed on ourselves. It's like waking up from chasing 'fool's gold' and discovering that Jesus is the true treasure right on our doorstep. There's no going back.

~ Pastor Dale Gosden

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Our responses to different situations tell a lot about us. Some people are good in a crisis, they respond rapidly in the midst of stressful situations where others might freeze. Some people respond slowly, and I have just as much respect - if not more! - for people who have the presence of mind to wait patiently until they have the right thing to say or do. How we respond to God is another situation again. When God lays something on us that requires a change of heart how do we respond?

Change of any kind is always unsettling but being unsettled isn’t always unwelcome. Sometimes responding to God requires us to change our minds and sometimes that change turns out to be what we were looking for the whole time.

~ Tim Foulkes

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