Sermons

2025-07-06- Apelu Tielu - Mission – what is it? - 2 Kings 5:1-14; Galatians 6:1-16; Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
Featured Text: Luke: 10:3 Go on your way; I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves.

2025-06-08- Apelu Tielu - In this post-Easter, post Resurrection age we need to live spirit-focused lives - Genesis 11:1-9; Acts 2:1-21; John 14:8-17 (25-27)
Featured Text: John 14:16-17a - And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth.

2025-06-01 Apelu Tielu - Unity with God and with each other - Acts 16:16-34; John 17:20-26
Featured Text: John 17:20-21 "I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me....”

2025-05-25-Apelu Tielu - How we respond to our calls determines the future – individually and collectively - Acts 16:9-15; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 5:1-6
Featured Text: John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"

2025-05-18-Apelu Tielu - Resurrection means, make things new - Acts 11:1-8; Revelation 21:1-6; John 13:31-35
Featured Text - John 13:34 – “...I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another....”

2025-05-11 Apelu Tielu - Women make excellent shepherds for God - Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30
Featured Text: John 10:27 “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.”

2025-05-04-Apelu Tielu - After the resurrection – what now? - Acts 9:1-20; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19
Featured Text: John 21:14 This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

2025-04-27-Apelu Tielu - Doubt offers a genuine and excellent path to knowledge, faith, and hope in the risen Lord - Acts 5:27-32; John 20:19-31
Featured Text: John 20:24-25. But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe."

2025-04-20-Apelu Tielu - The women of the resurrection - Luke 24:1-12 - Luke 24:10-11 Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.

2025-04-18-Apelu Tielu - Reflections on Good Friday’s OT and NT readings

2025-04-13-Apelu Tielu - The kingdoms of men and the kingdom of God - Isaiah 50:4-9; Luke 19:28-40.
Featured Text: Luke 19:38 saying, "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!"

2025-04-06-Apelu Tielu - Pray and work that we do not have any poor with us - Isaiah 43:16-21; John 12:1-8.
Featured Text: Luke 12:7-8 Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me."

2025-03-23-Apelu Tielu - A nurtured second chance promises new and abundant life - Isaiah 55:1-9; Luke 13:1-9.
Featured Text: Luke 13:8-9 - He replied, 'Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good, but if not, you can cut it down.'"

2025-03-16-Apelu Tielu - Do not be afraid! - Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35.
Featured Text: Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, "Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."

2025-03-09-Apelu Tielu - To whom do we owe our thanks for the blessings that we receive in life? - Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Luke 4:1-13
Featured Text: 26:1-2 "When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you..., you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest, ... put it in a basket and go to the place that the LORD ... will choose as a dwelling for his name....”

2025-03-02-Apelu Tielu - Listen to Him! - Exodus 34:29-35; 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2; Luke 9:28-43
Featured Text: Luke 9:35 Then from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!"

2025-02-23-Apelu Tielu - Imagine a world where we have no enemies - Genesis 45:1-15; Luke 6:27-38
Featured Text: Luke 6:27-28 "But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you; bless those who curse you; pray for those who mistreat you....”

2025-02-09-Apelu Tielu - Fishing: an excellent metaphor for God’s mission on earth - Isaiah 6:1-13; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11
Featured Text: Luke 5:4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch."

2025-02-02-Apelu Tielu - The perils of a prophet’s life - Jeremiah 1:4-10; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30
Featured Text: Luke 4:28-29 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff.

2025-01-26-Apelu Tielu - Reading scriptures with the desire to fulfil them in our lives and in our concerns - Nehemiah 8:1-10; Luke 4:14-21
Featured Text: 4:21 Then he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

2025-01-19-Apelu Tielu - Be ready! to “Do whatever he tells you.” - Isaiah 62:1-5; John 2:1-11
Featured Text: John 2:4-5 - And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what concern is that to me and to you? My hour has not yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

2025-01-12-Apelu Tielu - Always remember you are baptised - Isaiah 43:1-7; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
Featured Text: Luke 3:21-22 – Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased."

2025-01-05-Apelu Tielu - A new beginning - Genesis 1:1, 26-2:3; John 1:1-5, 10-18
Featured Text: John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2024-12-25- Apelu Tielu - On Christmas Day, we celebrate the birth of Jesus - Isaiah 9:2-7; Luke 2:1-20
Featured Text - Luke 22:7 And [Mary] gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth....

2024-12-22- Apelu Tielu - Love - God’s love - Micha 5:2-5a; Luke 1:39-55
Featured Text: Luke 1:54-55 – “... He has come to the aid of his child Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, according to the promise he made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever." 

2024-12-08- Apelu Tielu - Peace - Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 3:1-6
Featured Text: Luke 3:6 ‘...and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'" 

2024-11-24- Apelu Tielu - Jesus: the king of God’s kingdom - 2 Samuel 23:1-7; Revelation 1:4b-8; John 18:34-37
Featured Text: John 18:36 – Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here."

2024-11-03- Apelu Tielu - Do not be satisfied with just being near to the kingdom of God - Deuteronomy 6:1-9; Mark 12:28-34
Featured Text: Mark 12:34 When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the

kingdom of God." After that no one dared to ask him any question.

2024-10-20- Apelu Tielu - Kingdom power is through service of, and sacrifice for, God and others - Job 38:1-7, 34-41; Mark 10:35-45
Featured Text: Mark 10:44 – and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all.

2024-10-13- Apelu Tielu - When our material possessions stand in the way of real joy in life – living life in God’s realm - Job 1:1, 2:1-10; Mark 10:17-31
Featured Text: Mark 10:21 – Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."

2024-09-15- Apelu Tielu - Jesus is the Messiah/Christ of God - Proverbs 1:20-33; Mark 8:27-38
Featured Text: Mark 8:29 – He asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah."

2024-09-01- Apelu Tielu - God’s intentions and our lived reality - Genesis 2:18-24; Hebrews 1: 1-4, 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16
Featured Text: Mark 10:2 Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

2024-08-25- Apelu Tielu - The words of [eternal] life - Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18; Ephesians 6:10-20; John 6:56-69
Featured Text: John 6:68 – Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.

2024-08-11- Apelu Tielu - Life is eternal, but we need to experience it in this life to appreciate what awaits us in God’s glory - 1 Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:25-5:2; John 6:35, 41-51
Featured Text: John 6:50 - This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

2024-08-04- Apelu Tielu - The things that we really need in life - Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15; Ephesians 4:1-16; John 6:24-35
Featured Text: John 6:26 – Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

2024-07-14- Apelu Tielu - Life – the game we play on earth with heavenly consequences - Amos 7:7-15; Mark 6:14-29
Featured Text: Mark 6:16 – But when Herod heard of it, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised."

2024-07-07- Apelu Tielu - The challenge of being a prophet in an unbelieving world - Ezekiel 2:1-5; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13
Featured Text: Mark 6:3 – Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.

2024-06-23- Apelu Tielu - Crossing to the other side - Job 38:1-11; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41
Featured Text: Mark 4:35 - On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side."

2024-06-16- Apelu Tielu - God’s kingdom on earth - Ezekiel 17:22-24; Mark 4:26-34
Featured Text: Mark 4:30 He also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God...?

2024-06-09- Apelu Tielu - The family and the Gospel - 1 Samuel 8:4-20; 11:14-15; Mark 3:20-35
Featured Text: Mark 3:25, 33 - “...And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand...Who are my mother and my brothers?"

2024-06-02- Apelu Tielu - There is a Law higher than the law – the Law of love for this is God - Deuteronomy 5:12-15; 2 Corinthians 4:5-12; Mark 2:23-3:6
Featured Text: Mark 2:27 Then he said to them, "The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath

2024-05-19- Apelu Tielu - When things go bad in life, we can still count on the word and the Spirit of God to sustain us - Ezekiel 37:1-14, Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
Featured Text: John 6:13a When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.

2024-05-12- Apelu Tielu - Women are worthy teachers of the Gospel and are equal partners in the various ministries of the Church - Acts 1:15-26; John 17:6-19
Featured Text: Acts 1:21-22 So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us--one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection."

2024-05-05- Apelu Tielu - Rejoice in the Lord, always! - Acts 10:44-48; 1 John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17
Featured Text: John 15:11- I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

2024-04-28- Apelu Tielu - Abide in the Lord as he abides in you - Acts 8:26-40; 1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-8
Featured Text: John 15:4a - Abide in me as I abide in you.

2024-04-21- Apelu Tielu - God is our true good shepherd - 1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18
Featured Text: John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep....”

2024-03-31- Apelu Tielu - Does the resurrection matter? - Isaiah 25:6-9; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Mark 16:1-8
Featured Text: Mark 16:6 But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him”.

2024-03-29- Apelu Tielu - Making sense of the violence of Good Friday - Mark 15:1-47
Featured Text: Mark 15:25 - It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.

2024-03-17- Apelu Tielu - Christianity and human suffering - Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 12:20-33
Featured Text: John 12:32-23 – And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.

2024-03-10- Apelu Tielu - Light and darkness, in a Christian sense - Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:14-21
Featured Text: John 3:19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

2024-03-03- Apelu Tielu - It’s the economy, but which one? - John 2:13-22
Featured Text: John 2:16 He told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

2024-02-25- Apelu Tielu - Life: Is there any point in it? - Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16; Romans 4:13-25; Mark 8:31-38
Featured Text: Mark 8:31-32 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

2024-02-18- Apelu Tielu - To be a Christian is to be like... Christ - Mark 1:9-15 – NRSV
Featured Text: Mark 1: 12-13 - And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him.

2024-02-11- Apelu Tielu - The ‘mining industry’ - It’s mine! It’s mine! It’s mine! - 2 Kings 2:1-12; 2 Corinthians 4:3-6; Mark 9:2-9
Featured Text: Mark 9:5 Then Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

2024-02-04- Apelu Tielu - Where is God? Meeting people where they are - Isaiah 40:21-31; 1 Corinthians 9:16-23; Mark 1:29-39
Featured Text: Mark 1:31 He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.

2024-01-28- Apelu Tielu - Jesus in the Scriptures - Deuteronomy 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Mark 1:21-28
Featured Text: Mark 1:28 At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.

2024-01-21- Apelu Tielu - Believe the Good News of Jesus Christ - Jonah 3:1-5, 10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20
Featured Text: Mark 1:14-15 – Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news."

2024-01-14- Apelu Tielu - Is there anything good going on in the church today? - 1 Samuel 3:1-20; 1 Corinthians 6:12-20; John 1:43-51
Featured Text: John - 1:46 Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

2024-01-07- Apelu Tielu - In baptism, God chooses us to be His beloved children - Genesis 1:1-5; Acts 19:1-7; Mark 1:4-11
Featured Text: Acts 1:9 – In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

The readings and sermons for 2023 are based on the Lectionary and the book of Matthew

2023-12-25- Apelu Tielu - Focus on the big picture of God’s salvation story; not on the minor details - Isaiah 9:2-7; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20
Featured Text: Luke 2:10-11 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for see - I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord”.

2023-12-24- Apelu Tielu - Imagine a world where every Christian responds to God’s call in Mary’s way! - Luke 1:46b-55; Romans 16:25-27; Luke 1:26-38
Featured Text: Luke 1:38a Then Mary said, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word."

2023-12-10- Apelu Tielu - Comfort ye, for - Here is your God! the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God! - Isaiah 40:1-11; 2 Peter 3:8-15a; Mark 1:1-8
Featured Text: Mark 1:1 The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

2023-11-26- Apelu Tielu - Religion that God accepts as pure and faultless is this – care for the “least of these” - Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24; Ephesians 1:15-23; Matthew 25:31-46
Featured Text: Matthew 25:40 And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.'

2023-11-19- Apelu Tielu - Allow the life of God that is in you flow out into the world; don’t bury it in your backyard - Matthew 25:14-30
Featured Text: Matthew 25:14 "For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them...”.

2023-11-05 - Apelu Tielu - When our actions/works do not reflect our words: it’s called hypocrisy - Micah 3:5-12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13; Matthew 23:1-12
Featured Text: Matthew 23:2-3 "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

2023-10-22- Apelu Tielu - The sovereignty of God – where do you place God in your life? - Isaiah 45:1-7; Matthew 22:15-22
Featured Text: Matthew 22:19-21 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

2023-10-08 - Apelu Tielu - Tending God’s ‘vineyard’ so it produces fruits of justice and righteousness - Isaiah 5:1-7; Matthew 21:33-46
Featured Text: Matthew 21:43 “Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom”.

2023-10-01 - Apelu Tielu - The necessary and sufficient conditions to enter the kingdom of God is having a contrite heart - Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32; Matthew 21:23-32
Featured Text: Matthew 21:31b - Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you....”

2023-09-24 - Apelu Tielu - God is generous and compassionate to all, and we are called to do likewise - Jonah 3:10-4:11; Matthew 20:1-16
Featured Text: Matthew 20:14 Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you.

2023-09-17 - Apelu Tielu - Believe that God has forgiven your sins and offer the same to those who have wronged you - Genesis 50:15-21; Matthew 18:21-35
Featured Text: Matthew 18:21 Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?" Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.

2023-09-10 - Apelu Tielu - In conflict management, we need honesty, compassion and forgiveness - Romans 13:8-14; Matthew 18:15-20
Featured Text: Matthew 18:20 “…For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them."

2023-08-27 - Apelu Tielu - The Church of Jesus Christ - Matthew 16:13-20
Featured Text: Matthew 16:18 “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it….”

2023-08-20 - Apelu Tielu - Sound theology, strong and compassionate leadership, and wisdom - Genesis 45:1-15
Featured Text: Genesis 45:3a - Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph”.

2023-08-13 - Apelu Tielu - Family feuds can be turned to family joys - Genesis 37:1-28
Featured Text: Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a long robe with sleeves. Watch the sermon

2023-08-06 - Apelu Tielu - Those who persevere against life’s demands and struggles, with God, will prevail - Genesis 32:22-31
Featured Text: Genesis 32:24 Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. Watch the sermon

2023-07-23 - Apelu Tielu - The exile of Jacob - Genesis 28:10-19a
Featured Text: Genesis 28:10 Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran. Watch the sermon

2023-07-16 - Apelu Tielu - Do not despise what God had given you at conception - Genesis 25:19-34
Featured Text: Genesis 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus, Esau despised his birthright.  Watch the Sermon

2023-07-09 - Apelu Tielu - Where is home? - Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67
Featured Text: Genesis 24:37-38 My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live; but you shall go to my father's house, to my kindred, and get a wife for my son.' Watch the sermon

2023-07-02 - Apelu Tielu - Be God’s Christ - The call to participate in God’s salvation plan - Genesis 22:1-14; Matthew 10:40-42
Featured Text:  Genesis 22:1 After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."

2023-06-25 - Apelu Tielu - The God who hears the cry of the outcast, the outsider, and everyone and anyone who seeks him - Genesis 21:8-21
Featured Text:  Genesis 21:17 And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

2023-06-18 - Apelu Tielu - With God, anything and everything is possible - Genesis 18:1-15, (21:1-7)
Featured Text:  Genesis 18:14 “Is anything too wonderful for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, in due season, and Sarah shall have a son." Watch the sermon

2023-06-11 - Apelu Tielu - Lech Lecha (Go, You shall go) - Genesis 12:1-9; Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
Featured Text:  Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.…”

2023-05-21 - Apelu Tielu - You are Christ’s witnesses - Acts 1:6-14; John 17:1-11
Featured Text:  Acts 1:7-8 He replied, "It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."  Watch the sermon

2023-05-14 - Apelu Tielu - The unknown God is made known through Jesus as a Father who loves like a Mother - Acts 17:22-31; John 14:15-21
Featured Text: John 14:18 "I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.…”  Watch the sermon

2023-05-07 - Apelu Tielu - The power of belief - Acts 7:55-60; John 14:1-14
Featured Text: John 14:12 “Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these.”

2023-04-23 - Apelu Tielu - The elusive risen Lord - Luke 24:13-35
Featured Text: Luke 24:30-31 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him and he vanished from their sight.

2023-04-16 - Apelu Tielu - Thomas and the mutilated, risen Lord - 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31
Featured text:  John 20:27-28 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe." Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

2023-04-07 - Apelu Tielu - Good Friday - Being forgiven is our deepest spiritual yearning that only the suffering love of God can satisfy it - John 18:1-19:42
Featured text:  John 19:25 Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

2023-03-26 - Apelu Tielu - Jesus is the resurrection and the life - John 11:1-45
Featured text:  John 11:25-26: Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

2023-03-17 - Apelu Tielu - Sin - John 9:1-41
Featured text:  John 9:1-2 - As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

2023-03-19 - Apelu Tielu - Women are worthy partners in ministry  - John 4:5-42 
Featured text: John 4:28-29 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?"

2023-03-05 - Apelu Tielu - God sent the Son to save the whole world, not to condemn it - Genesis 12:1-4a; Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; John 3:1-17
Featured text: John 3:17 "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him”.

2023-02-26 - Apelu Tielu - Examination time: who of Adam, Eve and Jesus will pass and who will fail? - Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7; Matthew 4:1-11
Featured text: Matthew 4:1 "Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil."

2023-02-19 - Apelu Tielu - Allow yourself and life to be transfigured by the Lord of the transfiguration - Exodus 24:12-18; Matthew 17:1-9
Featured text: Matthew 17:2 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. 

2023-02-12 - Apelu Tielu - To obey the law is choosing life and blessings; to disobey the law is choosing death and curses - Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Matthew 5:21-37

2023-02-05 - Apelu Tielu - Jesus and the Law - Isaiah 58:1-14; Matthew 5:13-20

2023-01-22 - Apelu Tielu - What it means to follow Jesus? - Isaiah 9:1-4; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18; Matthew 4:12-23.
Text: Matthew 4:22, Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.

2023-01-15 - Apelu Tielu - What’s in a name? - John 1:29-42
Text: John 1:42 He brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You are to be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

2023-01-08 - Apelu Tielu - The baptism of Jesus and Jesus' baptism - Isaiah 42:1-9; Acts 10:34-43; Matthew 3:13-17
Text: Matthew 3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him.

2023-01-01 - Apelu Tielu - For everything, there is a season - Ecclesiastes 3:1-13; Revelation 21:1-6a; Matthew 25:3
Text: Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

16th May 2021 – The choosing of and the qualifications of an Apostle

9th May 2021 – Mother’s love is all that a person, a family, a church, a country, and our ever-troubled world really need

2nd May 2021 – A better understanding of scriptures is always helpful in living out our faith

25th Apr 2021 – I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep

18th Apr 2021 – Belief is not easy but the biblical witness, that God is the God of life, is true

11th Apr 2021 – Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe

4th Apr 2021 – The foolishness of the resurrection

2nd Apr 2021 – A Reflection on Passover Day (Good Friday)

28th Mar 2021 – Some know only how to criticise and stay unhappy, while others just do it for God and are filled with satisfaction

7th Mar 2021 – The foolishness of the cross shows the brilliance of God

28th Feb 2021 – The call to discipleship is a call to participate in God’s salvation plan; to accept it is to forsake all and to live sacrificially for others

21st Feb 2021 – Lent

14th Feb 2021 – Transfigured lives – living in the presence of God

7th Feb 2021 – Good news and good neighbours