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The Holy Spirit and new life in Jesus
3 Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of...

Kristina Trott
Jan 28, 20234 min read
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Chinese New Year, red envelopes and you
11But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them sing joyful praises forever. Spread your protection over them, that all who love...

Kristina Trott
Jan 26, 20233 min read
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Where does Jesus come from?
In my last blog I wrote about the aseity of God – the fact that God is self-derived or self-originated, has absolute self-sufficiency,...

Kristina Trott
Jan 23, 20232 min read
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Where do you come from?
In my study of climatology decades ago, I understood that all weather was a product of energy – energy deficits and surpluses and that...

Kristina Trott
Jan 22, 20233 min read
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Roman processions and you
While living in the Cotswolds I have been surrounded by remnants of the old Roman civilisation. Did you realise that there is at least...

Kristina Trott
Jan 19, 20233 min read
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What does it mean to say we have a new life in Jesus?
For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of...

Kristina Trott
Jan 16, 20232 min read
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How do we treat our enemy?
How do we treat someone with whom we profoundly disagree? In the course of my stay in the UK I have met church leaders whose religious...

Kristina Trott
Dec 19, 20222 min read
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Why did the Ethiopian eunuch read aloud?
Have you ever read something a thousand times and then suddenly read something that you have never seen before? That’s what happened to...

Kristina Trott
Dec 4, 20223 min read
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Christians and sin
I’ve been writing about the difference in the life lived before a knowledge of Jesus and the blessed life we have when we live under His...

Kristina Trott
Nov 29, 20222 min read
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Storms: living in fear or living in trust
I last wrote about the different way we can approach life’s calamities when we live under Jesus – that we are now living under a...

Kristina Trott
Nov 24, 20223 min read
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The answer to my riddle
In my last blog I posed a riddle –to find the psalm that elaborated on the mission statement of Jesus recorded in Luke. I gave you one...

Kristina Trott
Nov 21, 20223 min read
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A riddle for all you thinkers out there!
I last wrote about experiencing God so that you can know His character – to test Him in all the varied happenings of life to know all the...

Kristina Trott
Nov 17, 20222 min read
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Masala chai and tasting God
As we sat on our balcony this morning, sipping our masala chai, I reflected on how many times I have changed the proportions of the...

Kristina Trott
Nov 13, 20222 min read
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Love is the antidote to pride!
Why is it that incompetent individuals are confident of their talents and abilities in a certain area and overstate their skills? I have...

Kristina Trott
Nov 7, 20222 min read
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Why I like an Anglican prayer-book service
On a Sunday we enjoy a prayer-book service where we collectively recite prayers that were first written at the height of the Reformation...

Kristina Trott
Nov 2, 20222 min read
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Surviving shipwrecks
I had a forebear who came as a free settler to the penal colony of Hobart. Having braved ocean travel for weeks in a sailing boat, she...

Kristina Trott
Oct 23, 20223 min read
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No shadow of turning with God and what that means for you
Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes...

Kristina Trott
Oct 19, 20222 min read
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Pageantry, ceremony and God
Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest last month in an incredible display of pomp, circumstance and showmanship from the monarchy, military...

Kristina Trott
Oct 16, 20222 min read
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What made the apostle Paul really angry?
“You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a spell on you? Have you taken leave of your senses? Something crazy has happened, for it’s obvious...

Kristina Trott
Oct 13, 20223 min read
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Have you come to bitter waters?
“22 Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the desert of Shur. They travelled in this desert...

Kristina Trott
Oct 10, 20223 min read
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