Maybe like me, you’ve never thought about this… But here goes: Jesus talks about us being like branches that produce good fruit. (John 15) God is the gardener. Photo by Irena Carpaccio on Unsplash Sometimes we get pruned, in order to produce MORE fruit. I have to be...
Have you ever had a WALL in front of you? It might not be a physical, double brick blockage – maybe it’s a place of frustration, a bone of contention, a theme, a season. Whatever it might be, I have recently been given some encouragement about walls, and I...
It’s Good Friday today here in Melbourne. And I got to thinking, what makes Good Friday….well…good?I mean, Jesus went through unimaginable agony and pain. He didn’t do a thing wrong, and here he was, put on a cross… mocked, his body...
We were given an ancient piano – 1871-1880 It sounded fine to us, but to any trained ear, it was as flat as a tack. No one wanted the job. “It’s too old. Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash We’d be liable if strings broke. It’s not worth...
“I need you to baptize me, John.” “What? I can’t do that. What good is there in me, that I could baptize you, Jesus? You should be baptizing me.” “It is fitting that you do this thing,” Jesus gently responded. Matthew 3:15b...
Reading 1 Chronicles 14 this morning and it HIT me! The names of the children born to David. Shammau, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japia, Elishama, Beeliada and Eliphelet. These were living breathing people. They had lives. The were...
