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Send us Fan Mail It is hard not to panic and just want a return to peaceful relationship NOW! Peace takes time most of the time. There is a need for great patience and no panic. 

Send us Fan Mail The thought of conflict between people being not only a matter of right but or doing right is quite foreign to our culture. You don’t hear of people doing things to do right but to get what they believe to their rights.  That anyone who has been wronged would simply give up their moral and legal right to exact their fair share of compensation for the wrong done against them for so...

Send us Fan Mail Navigating conflict back to peace PART II Getting the log out of your own eye....... The truth hurts, but unresolved conflict hurts more.

Send us Fan Mail Navigating conflict to Peace Part I We dislike conflict. It makes us uncomfortable. It can shatter our confidence. It can really hurt. We usually run away from it. On the other hand, if pushed enough, we can go on the attack. Fight r flight are unhelpful responses we need to get beyond to live out the gospel we proclaim.  The bottom line is that in Jesus, the Servant King, there i...

Send us Fan Mail It is easy to be very confused about who you are and to know what makes you who you are as well as what you are all about in life. There are plenty of voices pulling you this way and that in the search for identity and purpose.  John 1:29-33

Send us Fan Mail Living in the new creation community of Jesus - what it looks like... What do you do when you are mostly misunderstood by someone; misjudged to be a weak person, your work to be unimportant, your contribution to be of minimal value in the community? Do you come out swinging or escape into the shadows? In this last part of this second letter to the Corinthians it is clear that the...

Send us Fan Mail Living life in the new creation of God's grace - what it looks like...... They say ‘money talks’. But I can tell you, talking about money in the church is hard.  On the one hand we need money because mission cost money. On the other, we are really turned off the whole guilt tripping or high-pressure selling techniques that we sometime see from Christian organisations.   Paul...

Send us Fan Mail Living in the new kingdom of God's grace - what it looks like.... When new things happen to you, new ways of living with them are needed from you.  You need new eyes to let this new scene teach you and shape the future.

Send us Fan Mail How the new life in God's grace works Part I There are a lot of things that can knock the ‘heart’ out of you; make you lose heart, lose confidence, lose conviction, lose hope and lose love for your now and tomorrow. With no real ‘heart in it’, your work, your study, your family, your church, your plans for your future seem futile or fearful.   This man Paul knows the depths o...

Send us Fan Mail What living in the new kingdom of God's grace looks like - Part II Can you hear Paul?  “You really want to know why I am uninterested in looking good, smelling good, being good, being seen to be good, speaking with charisma and eloquence, performing powerful miracles, having endless light chit-chat about unimportant things; why I am blunt, awkward, seemingly strange, indecisi...

Send us Fan Mail The New is Here Easter series captures those first stunning moment of the church coming to be and calls us back to the newness of Jesus' presence and promises for living now.  

Send us Fan Mail The New is Here Easter series captures those first stunning moment of the church coming to be and calls us back to the newness of Jesus' presence and promises for living now.  

Send us Fan Mail The New is Here Easter series captures those first stunning moment of the church coming to be and calls us back to the newness of Jesus' presence and promises for living now.  

Send us Fan Mail The New is Here Easter series captures those first stunning moment of the church coming to be and calls us back to the newness of Jesus' presence and promises for living now.  

Send us Fan Mail You might feel tired, old, lonely or despondent about living. But the New life of God is here now. 

Send us Fan Mail Those old Ten Commandments: are they just rules for keeping or something much more? Might they be rules for living in relationship?

Send us Fan Mail “Can anything good ever come from the local Christian church?” The Teacher is from the wrong places, but he finds you before you find him and as you look in the wrong places he never does. 

Send us Fan Mail The most reluctant prophet in history - The most gracious God ever - Jonah's Story

Send us Fan Mail THE word of the Spirit that re-forms us in God's loving hope. 

Send us Fan Mail Doing life alone on your own terms often comes up short. What f we had a constant crowd support for the crucial things in life? 

Send us Fan Mail When life goes bad, you need someone to bring God's blessing and life to you. 

Send us Fan Mail Life can feel like broken promises and shifting sand. Not with God. 

Send us Fan Mail In a communal God we live in ultimate community no matter how isolated or disconnected we feel.

Send us Fan Mail COVID is Resetting the Word but who will rekindle me? There is resurrection and life on offer. Holy Spirit, rekindle me.....

Send us Fan Mail The Good Friday Jesus finds you, no matter what. With him, no one gets left behind, no matter what the wounds, the heartache or pressure you are under.