Gathering to worship God bids us do one thing at once with all our focus. This runs counter to the growing tendency to split attention between any number of tasks, giving full attention to nothing. God deserves nothing less than undivided attention. From John Muether: Single-minded attention is strange to us, even in worship, because …
In a culture that encourages fear of missing out there is a price to be paid in having every cent and every moment spoken for. As Christmas gives way to thoughts of New Year, Michael Kelley writes about the margin that God wants us to factor into our lives and why we shouldn’t reap to …
Winn Collier writes about the longing that Advent epitomises, a Gospel fuelled desire for the fulfilment of redemption. We have peace, and long for peace. We have hope, and long for that expectation to be fully realised. From Collier: I’m aching for peace. To be sure, I’m not angling for anything easy or contrived or …
I knew a lady who hated the word ‘stuff’. When we meet as one of the small groups that she belonged to and one of us uses the word we all fall silent for a second and then, having heard her remonstration about using that word echo in our minds, all laugh and try to …
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