Harmony
How wonderful it is, how good,when people live together in harmony!For harmony is a precious thing.Peace between us is like the warmth of the sun,Stirring our hope and calming our …
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Our Place
Humility is not about being a doormat.Or a ‘yes’ person or a pushover…Instead it is knowing our place in the world –looking at the sky and seeing the vastness of …
The Friend – the God who understands our pain
When Iris loses her best friend Walter she is filled with grief, then she discovers one of his last requests was that she look after his great Dane, Apollo. And …
Now
I take my mind with me,That can be the problem,Because my mind is often 10 minutes ahead,So when I arrive at that point 10 minutes later,My mind is still running …
Our God
You Lord are a God of equality,of sincerity and integrity,and it is you Lord who can make us people of quality of sincerity and integrity. We cannot do this on our own, without …
Mission Impossible:Final Reckoning
In this 8th Mission Impossible film a deadly virus, generated by artificial intelligence, is taking over the world and it’s going to destroy it. Unless Ethan hunt and his Mission …
Bad Autocorrections
Imagine if St Paul had been given a Roman iPad with an autocorrect function programmed by that domineering Roman empire, 1 Corinthians 13 might have read a little differently… If …
Holy Ground
Joshua once met a mysterious Figure,One who was leading the Lord’s army,When Joshua asked whose side he was on,the Figure said, ‘Wrong question, Joshua,Whose side are you on?’And so Joshua …
The Salt Path – Don’t Give Up
This film is an incredible true story about keeping going. When Raynor Wynn and her husband Moth lose their house, they do the unexpected. With very little money and nothing …
Why?
Why do we value the life of another?Why do we believe people are precious?Why do believe in freedom and peace?Why do we hope for better things?Why do we long for …
Clean
You are never afraid of the dark, or the dirt,You came into this world to make contact with the dubious.You touched those no one would touch,and you came close to …
We Believe
We believe in light rather than darkness. We believe in hope over despair. We believe that people are unique in this world. We believe that good news is better than …
Downsizing – the line in our hearts
In the film Downsizing Paul discovers a groundbreaking way to improve his life – to go smaller! If he undertakes a process to become one of the little people – …
Precious
You never forget Lord,You are not like me.You do not walk into a roomAnd wonder what you came in for.You know the good things we do,No matter how small and …
Imagined
Lord, help our faith to grow,Take the mustard seeds of our hope and faith,And enlarge them.Refresh us daily with your living water,Enlarge our thinking and renew our minds,Strengthen our hearts …
The Slow Moving Ship – a parable
When they first set sail it had seemed like a dream come true.A ship to freedom, a journey of hope.A means of heading in the right direction.But then the truth …
Dry
Our lives can seem to lack refreshmentCracked and pitted due to the lack of rain,We feel like discarded bones in a desert valley,Waiting for someone to revive us and lift …
MI7:Dead Reckoning & escaping life
Having recently seen the seventh Mission Impossible movie, Dead Reckoning, in which Ethan Hunt and his buddies motorcycle off cliff edges, battle their way through tumbling railway carriages, and peel …
The Penguin Lessons – Unexpected encounters
When Tom Michell arrives in his new post as teacher in an Argentinian school, he is unhappy in his work and he struggles to engage with the boys and keep …
Image
It was once said that God made us in his image and we have returned the compliment. Perhaps if we were to make God nowHe would be an influencer,Longing to …