2020, what a year! What have you been learning? What has this year been teaching you? This year I have learnt how to make sourdough bread. It is quite a process over a number of days, feeding the starter, stretching the bread, proving the dough. It is a slow process, nothing can be hurried, everything …
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“Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way.” 1 Corinthians 13: 4b-5a NLT Here we read about a love that refuses to be jealous of others; a love that does not brag about achievements or inflate its own importance; a love that doesn’t selfishly seek …
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What is the purpose of this, Lord? The other morning as I was driving I was listening to Rend Collectives song Live Alive. As I listening and hummed along to a song I’ve heard countless times before, one line captured my attention: There’s a purpose in the furnace flame. This one line held my attention …
Early May 2020, I’ve been battling either: Inspiration vs abilityorAbility vs inspiration I was trying to work on a few pieces of writing that have been brewing away, but it just wasn’t flowing and I was getting SO frustrated. I decided to make notes to at least capture my train of thought and then just …
In John chapter 1 verse 16 we find an astonishing promise that from Christ’s fullness we are fulfilled. Through Jesus’ superabundance of grace and truth we receive grace upon grace; spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favour upon favour, and gift heaped upon gift (John 1:16). There is a fullness to be found in Christ, but …
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How have you felt over the last few months? How have you reacted to the ups and downs of isolation, and now the relaxing of restrictions? Have you asked the question, “What am I doing here?” I have recently been pondering a passage from Kings which details Elijah’s escape from Jezebel after he defeats the …
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“Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how.” Francine Rivers Wouldn’t it be nice if it didn’t take our entire lifetime to learn?I wonder if we could learn how to truly love others before we cause too much destruction? C.S. Lewis declares: “I do not expect old heads on young …
Amazing Grace is one of our most recognised songs, it was written in 1779 by John Newton and its message of forgiveness and redemption still rings true today, touching many lives. There is a line within that lovely hymn that has confused me for some time: That saved a wretch; like me!Merriam-Webster defines wretch as …
Welcome to Throwback Thursday Today we are revisiting a post by Josephine-Anne Griffiths which is very appropriate for today. It was first posted November 2018. Frequently I carefully plan what I wish to write about in a blog post, then in the blink of an eye my focus changes. Either God is behind this change …
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On the 25th of February this year (2020) I awoke from a dream where God had directed me to comfort a widow. In my dream I introduced myself; held her hand; I cried with her; I prayed for her; and admired the dress she showed me that she would wear at the funeral. It didn’t …
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