Growing older amplifies the reality that change is inescapable and control is something of an illusion. For disciples of Jesus it bids us recognise the difference between death and dying; that Jesus has overcome death, and that dying is only a shadow. It also bids us look to the one where certainty, comfort, and peace …
Twenty years or more ago I talked with a Christian lady who mentioned that Psalm 90’s poetical expression ‘The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble,’ reflected her experience of life was teaching her what the ‘toil and trouble’ those who …
2020 is a year which is being consciously experienced as a season of deferred or cancelled plans. This does not mean that our lives are on hold, waiting for a return to normal before we can start our lives again. Rather we are living right now, albeit in ways that we had not anticipated or …
There is always the temptation for a disciple of Jesus to frame our life from the perspective ‘If only Jesus were here,’ or ‘How do Jesus’ teaching and actions from two thousand years ago guide my responses to contemporary situations.’ Both these ways of thinking are deficient for the truth is that Jesus tells us …
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