Not seven times or seventy seven or even seventy times seven but countless times during our lifetimes. We are continually being set free.
Read moreThe forgiven, restored and repaired. Perhaps, just as in The Repair Shop, we might find that each one of us gets transformed in the process.
Read moreOne commentator describes it as: “Jesus with his compassion down”. Another: “Beware the dog”. Perhaps we call it: “Small crumbs of comfort”.
Read moreElijah might well have sung along to “hello darkness my old friend” but unlike Simon & Garfunkel’s silence, God’s silence is a place where people are able to love each other.
Read moreMay the same be true for us and Psalm 67. May this Song of God’s Blessing come back and meet us to heal us when we need it most.
Read moreI wonder what would have happened if my wife had seen the field with the wheat and the weeds. I suspect she would have pulled the lot up – and then not told the landowner to see how long it was before he noticed.
Read moreNo less an authority than the teacher in Peppa Pig once said that poetry was “a magical way of using words that puts a picture in your mind”
Read more‘I’m just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood’. Do we misunderstand when Jesus talks about a yoke?
Read moreWhoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.
Read moreOut of whatever pain and grief that we may be in right now, may we too know newness of life. To both grieve a loss and celebrate a life.
Read moreAre you harassed and helpless? Do you just look that way but inside everything is calm and peaceful! Would you walk alongside those who are?
Read moreMost of you will know by now that we suddenly lost our son, Stuart, last week. We still expect him…
Read moreWe need to think about which words to use. What areas of common ground are there which are consistent with our message but understood by all?
Read moreIt says that Stephen fell asleep. For the theologian, Soren Kierkegaard, he falls asleep because he died praying forgiveness for his enemies.
Read moreJesus calling himself the Good Shepherd was a huge claim. It built on all number of passages in Scripture. But Jesus has other flocks too…
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