Small barren rocky island outcrops are frequently used to incarcerate criminals: such as Alcatraz in San Francisco harbour or Fort...

As I was driving my car yesterday I noticed plastic tied strategically to posts along my route. Twenty years ago it used to be cassette...

Jesus declared that He was anointed “to bring good news to the poor...to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be...

On this Easter weekend we look at what ended when Jesus was crucified and what wonderful blessings commenced for us who believe. Not only...

Forgiveness is one of the hardest things for a human to do. It’s not easy to be wronged and then turn the other cheek. In fact, exacting...

This year I’ve participated in two Seder meals so understandably my mind has been considering the first Passover where the Israelites...

Your ministers of fire, Lord, who travel on the wind; are busy heeding all Your words, to bring the harvest in. Innumerable angels fly,...

The peaceful harbour lies behind, the headlands standing guard; standing strong against the storms, protecting us from harm. The towering...

I was living in the countryside and was hanging the washing out. (You can appreciate that with six active kids that was a regular...

When my husband, Pete, was a young unsaved hippy traversing the world searching for the meaning of life, he camped beside Lake Malawi....

When Jesus and His disciples had attempted to cross Galilee in a boat, a windstorm had erupted and the waves were repeatedly throwing...

We are all sick. All the physical diseases that Jesus dealt with point to our moral sickness. For example, leprosy highlighted our...

Today is the first day of the Persian (and Kurdish and Iraqi, and Afghani etc) new year, “nowruz”. My mind goes back to the first year of...

Then Jesus told them another story: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who planted good seed in his field. That night, when everyone...

So Simon Peter also came, following him, and he entered the tomb; and he looked at the linen wrappings lying there, and the face-cloth...

Rahab provided protection for the Israeli spies when they spied out her city of Jericho. In return, she and her household, who gathered...

”Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on...

I’m sure you know people who like to revisit the past and pore over it, again and again so that they make themselves miserable recounting...

The path to true happiness and prosperity is found in having God as your life-source. When we drink in the waters of the Spirit and so...

There was a woman who lived in a culture where women were treated disrespectfully yet her singular action presaged an era of grace. When...