Posts from April 2020
Between Living and the Dead
Just a few days ago I happened to read again the words I wrote in the last days of 2019 as we considered where God would lead our church and community this year. My prayer then, was that we would be a community that was ‘on-fire’. Everyone filled with the fire of God’s Spirit living in us, and empowered to do great things for him. 2019 had been a year when we had felt that we had been ‘under-fire’, dealing…
Living in an Upside-Down World
James’ eldest brother was out of control. They had all got along great until recently, but then his brother had started hanging out with the wrong sort of folk. He had started saying things that upset a lot of people, especially the authorities, and the things he had started doing had begun to attract a lot of media attention. The numbers of people following him were getting bigger every day. James was not sure what was happening but his brother…
Living on Easter Saturday
Encouragement is something that we all need, especially in times like these, and so I pray that in these words you will find encouragement. There is no record of what Jesus’ disciples did on Easter Saturday, the activity of Good Friday, and the days before, is over and they had no idea what was to come on Easter Sunday. In my head we are living in a drawn-out Easter Saturday at the moment. The activity of our lives before Coronavirus…