God is love. Learning to let God keep on loving us.

God is love. Learning to let God keep on loving us.

The First Letter of John reminds us that God is love, and that love is real, down to earth, and practical. If we can’t love the people who are around us (especially those in our church family) then we can’t claim to love God, whom we can’t see. Love isn’t just a warm...
Jesus our Good Shepherd

Jesus our Good Shepherd

I am the good shepherd. I lay down my life for the sheep…I know my own and my own know me. John 10:11,14. When I was a country pastor in WA in the 1990’s, there were lots of farmers who had sheep, but only one of our many farming members actually enjoyed sheep work....
Connecting to the non-invasive God-space inside each one of us.

Connecting to the non-invasive God-space inside each one of us.

We are children of God. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. 1 John 3:1,3. There is a God-space inside each one of us, because we are all made in the image of God. That God-space is not something we earn or create. There are many...
The Risen Christ still carries his wounds.

The Risen Christ still carries his wounds.

Then he showed them his hands and his side. John 20:20. By his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53: 5 The Risen Christ proudly shows off his wounds from the cross. They are still very visible, and help the disciples know that it really is him. I find it utterly...
Move along, nothing to see here.

Move along, nothing to see here.

‘You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.  But go, tell his disciples and Peter, “He is going ahead of you into Galilee.”’ Mark 16:6-7. The Gospel writer Mark does not have the risen...
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