This is a story of two people who meet at a place of refreshment. Both are weary and searching for something more. He is physically tired and looking for a drink to ease his thirst. She is tired of life and its judgments and is seeking to become invisible. They meet, look at each other,…
It’s all a matter of perspective. There is value when we look beyond the crowded scene of the moment to the wide sweeping vista of the horizon, it can bring clarity and direction. Here and now is important; life is to be lived in the present, responsive to the tasks at hand but sometimes we…
It all started with a story about beginnings, everything’s beginning. A story of darkness and light, of things coming together, of life and hope and goodness and connections. God and humanity and the rest of the universe interwoven and interrelated. Then the story moves from the grand arena of cosmic proportions to focus on two…
There are always great surprises in our natural world, it seems that God delights in the unexpected. One such example is the transformation of caterpillar into butterfly. It challenges logic to imagine the connection between a ravenous and chubby crawling leaf eater to the delicate slender colourful nectar drinking, flower pollinating flying insect. Yet metamorphosis…
For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. Psalm 2:1 (ESV) Our world today is hectic and we are encouraged to keep up the pace with many activities. There is an underlying assumption that busy is better than inactivity, and that we should strive to be as active as possible…
Ok, what’s important to you? I suppose it depends upon many things. Your age, gender, country of birth, religion, financial resources. There is a myriad of influences that affect what we hold to be important in our lives. Even after we have struggled through to define what it is that is important to us, we…
Do good stuff. Whoever we are, wherever we live, whatever we are facing there are always opportunities for us to do good things. We have many chances to do good; to make a positive difference in our world. We have an influence upon others through small acts of kindness, intentional choices of love and creative…
Many people see Jesus as a spiritual leader who focused all his attention on prayer and doing spiritual things to please God. Even many of his followers have tried to copy Jesus by isolating themselves from the world and living a pious separated existence, yet the Gospel stories reveal a Jesus who had a very…
There is a beautiful hymn in the old Methodist Hymnal called “Faith of our fathers, living still, in spite of dungeon, fire, and sword, O how our hearts beat high with joy whene’er we hear that glorious word. Faith of our fathers! Holy faith! We will be true to thee till death.” Do we ever…
It is good when people gather together to praise and worship God in our church building. We work together to prepare a time of blessing and teaching for those who come. We even organise recordings so that those who are unable to attend can share in this worship experience. We’re doing what God calls us…