Worship Resources for Lent Here is a reflection activity that can be used during the first Sunday in Lent. It works particularly well as...

When I was four years old, I stepped off a train, misjudged the distance and fell through the gap between the train and the platform....

It’s a Wednesday and I’m confined to barracks while I await my Covid-19 test results. The perimeter of my yard is as far as I’m allowed...

A friend of a friend exited the shops one day only to discover her car was missing. Assuming she’d forgotten where she’d parked it, she...

God of Comfort, Some of us are freaking out and we're turning to tangible things like toilet paper canned beans and packets of baby wipes

A few years ago, an old book came into my possession – a book with a back story so intriguing, I barely slept for two days for thinking...

Hi, my name's Moses. You may remember me from such speeches as the ten commandments and that time I parted the Red Sea.

I've spent the past twenty odds years quietly recovering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. For this reason, I'm often asked for advice by...

There are three things I know about my paternal grandmother: She was born in 1891 in a small village in Holland. During the Second World...

My friend and fellow poet, Mandy Langlois, has written an Easter blessing especially for my congregation. Since its message is universal,...

It's been a long time since I wrote a poem – a good couple of years by my calculations. However, after attending my first ever...

Lessons from the wilderness 1. You can’t avoid the wilderness. Many, if not all of us, have had wilderness experiences – times when we’ve...

What is the Process of Temptation? I don’t believe the cause of temptation is external. Rather, I believe it stems from an inner wound....

Shortly before I learned to walk, my mum took me to a friend’s house that was filled with pots of brightly-coloured cyclamens. The moment...

Flabbergasted and angry. That's how I felt as I read a recent post by the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL),...

‘Then, at his command, it all melts. He sends his winds, and the ice thaws.’ – Psalm 147:18 (NLT) When I was in high school, my Year...

When my health collapsed in my late twenties, it was as if I’d been air-dropped – SAS style – into a wilderness survival course. I found...