A few years back I attended a session at a PK event where Richard Brunton spoke on the importance of the Father’s Blessing. This really challenged me and I felt deeply convicted that this was an important concept in the Kingdom of God. I left that event with a conviction to overtly pray a Father’s Read More
This year has been an unexpected year of change and in some ways growth. COVID-19 has adversely affected most of us this year. I’m reminded about an article Pastor Gary Colville recently wrote for PK’s WiseChoices about Seasons of Life. [You can read Gary’s excellent article here.] He suggests that winter is a time where trees Read More
Working together as the body of Christ – When I first became a Christian there was a lot of talk about “Body Ministry” which I thought was a very odd concept. What does that mean I wondered? I learned later that it is about ministering to the Body of Christ, the wider Christian community. I Read More
An observation from my experience with the COVID restrictions is that that some of us may not be as well connected with others as we could be. With new found freedoms, as we moved down alert levels, I have noticed in some circles that I move in, that people have become more proactive in making Read More
I love it when my daily Bible readings reveal things that I may not have considered before. It is as though the scripture is opened up to reveal a new nuance on truth. I was reading Matthew 4 and the last verse in the chapter reads, “Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and Read More
I was reflecting on our recent Father’s Day and wondered how it originally came about. Apparently the first event that explicitly honoured fathers was a Sunday sermon that honoured 362 men who died in a mining accident in 1908 in Virginia. The first officially recognised Father’s Day was in Spokane Washington in 1910 initiated by Read More
While much of this year hasn’t happened as we expected, it has given us an opportunity to be creative. From the beginning of our New Zealand interactions with the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, God has been telling me this is an opportunity to do things differently. This is an opportunity to be creative. We serve a Read More
You may have heard the saying “it’s all in your head”. People sometimes make this comment when you are not doing so well but others think you are okay. In these tough times some of us feel that we aren’t coping or doing well. It is a stressful time. So is it true that it’s Read More
The other day I was reading Psalm 40 in my morning devotional time. As I was reading the words of a song we used to sing, with the students at chapel in my days as a Christian school principal, came to mind. The locally written original song, Out of the Clay*, was an exact quote Read More
A lot of people have a habit of living in either their past or their future. The simple fact is neither is a very constructive way of dealing with the present. When we live in the past it can be for a number of reasons; it can be with regret for what we did or Read More