creation :: a-part (a reflection on genesis 1 for creation sunday 2020)

During this Harvest season (in the church’s calendar) I have been thinking out God’s Creation and our part within it.

‘if I had a rocket launcher’: vengeance & forgiveness (with a nod to bruce cockburn)

Today’s theme (a continuation from from last Sunday – conflict resolution) is ‘forgiveness’.

conflict resolution: the Jesus method

No nation, community, organisation or family is without conflict. Conflict is both a facet and a fact of life.

enough?

These are worrying times. Do you ever worry that you won’t have enough? I do.

Murder in Our Hearts?: Remembrance and Reconciliation

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all at sea

Holiday time. There's a certain attraction to taking a holiday by the seaside. The fresh sea air. The sound of seagulls overhead. Fish and chips...

Trin-identity

Trinity Sunday, 3 June 2018 A threefold cord is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4: 12

Tough Love

Reading the Old Testament in isolation, you'd be forgiven for not knowing - or understanding - what God is doing. One minute God is full of...

'Big Tent Church'

Keith's visioning report for the Church AGM 2018 2017/18 saw our move into a Big Tent for the winter months. The reason for this was to save on...

'No other Name' - Wholeness & Healing

The background and context to this reading is the account of the healing of the lame man at the Temple Gate - the Gate Beautiful (Acts chapter...

King of the #Jews

Above the the Cross of Christ is a sign which reads 'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews' (INRI - Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum). The Jewish...

Lent Disciple-lines #4: Enact-ion (Keith Hitchman)

Thirty-two years ago I wrote this short piece for an evangelistic publication. Reading it through recently, I was struck by how much of what I...