Hope in challenging times
This Sunday will be the first time when there will be no service of public worship at St John's in the way we normally understand it. All religious se [...]
The world belongs to God
I have often welcomed January as a time to plan for the coming year. It’s usually quieter with no meetings and many people away on holiday. But this y [...]
God seeks the lost
Luke’s story of the prodigal son, coming as it does in the very middle of the Gospel, and at the end of three stories about loss, is central to the me [...]
Life-giving Sabbath
It’s a long time since I thought of Jesus as the old children’s hymn puts it: Gentle Jesus meek and mild, look upon a little child pity my simplicity, [...]
God’s community
When I became a parent my understanding of what ‘family’ means shifted a gear or two. As a child I took my family for granted, but when I began to hav [...]
Leadership – and the transition from Elijah to Elisha
A little girl once asked her mother if the Bible story of Elijah flying to heaven on a chariot of fire was real or pretend. How would you have answere [...]
Change isn’t always easy…..
Change isn’t always easy to deal with, and that’s certainly the case for the disciples of Jesus. They had been with him for three years, night and day [...]