Encourage One Another
Ian B. We’ve come to the final chapter of 1 Thessalonians, and the subject matter of the first section looks similar to last part of chapter 4, which we looked at last…
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Peter – so right but so wrong!
I was invited to speak at Forest Hill Community Church today, on an episode of my choice from the life of Peter. I chose Peter’s confession of Jesus as the…
Resurrection for the rest of us!
This little letter of 1 Thessalonians that we have been reading is probably one of the lesser-known parts of the New Testament. But you might have heard that it has…
An Embodied Faith
Recently I read a description of God meeting us ‘in our bodies’, asking where else God could meet us. I can’t find the exact quote now, but it stuck with…
It’s about relationship!
A few years ago we were talking about the triangle – Up, In, Out. It represents three relationships that are key to healthy Christian life: UP – our worship of…
Sixteen Years in Care: A Memoir – David Meader
Sixteen Years in Care, a Memoir: A journey to freedom from rejection, pain and loneliness, Malcolm Down Publishing, 2022. David Meader tells his personal story of growing up in care,…
Tell Her Story, Nijay Gupta
Gupta's approach in this book is to see and understand, from the biblical text, how women did have leadership roles, especially in the early church, before considering what we might…
Paul’s Longing
I wonder whether you’ve ever experienced the same deflated feeling that I have sometimes at the end of an intense exciting project. Maybe at the end of a short term…
The Stone, the Guard, and the Promise
It is hard to assimilate all the details of the four gospels’ accounts of Jesus’ resurrection into one account, but that’s how it is with multiple witnesses to an extraordinary…
Happy Easter!
A series of haiku drawing on John 20, to re-tell what Mary did (and didn’t). What Mary Did (and Didn’t) In the darkest time Mary does not hide at home…