Mar 28 in Lent
The book of Ruth was set during the time of Judges, a chaotic time for ‘everyone did what was right in their own eyes’ Judges 17:6, they had lost their sense of national identity by compromising their beliefs with the culture of the people surrounding them; perhaps considered a more liberal, tolerant and all-encompassing society, …
Mar 26 in Lent
Our scarlet thread now takes us through the desert for 40 years, a whole generation learning a new way of life, leaving wrong attitudes / wrong ideologies / wrong behaviour / wrong attachments / idolatries behind, a circumcision of the heart (am I seeing any parallels here to my life?) … being trained, prepared, purified, …
Mar 25 in Lent
Mar 24 in Lent
“The winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land”…. It is the first day of Spring! What words do we associate with Spring? Hope, growth, renewal, revival, new birth, bloom and …
Mar 21 in Lent
It is the last day of winter, the hardest season of the year for me, in fact I could quite easily skip it altogether, I would not miss it; cold and wet, barren and harsh, where nature takes a rest; plants live off their underground food storage reserves, the soil gathers minerals while it lies …
Mar 19 in Lent
An amazing depiction of God’s heart and how He is in the business of renewing, restoring and transforming lives no matter how broken and hope-less; He is a God who cares, who persistently stretches forth His hand to us, no matter the circumstances we’re in, just like the story of the potter in Jeremiah 18, …
Mar 18 in Lent
The Bible has many threads interwoven throughout it, once you begin to unravel one of them you discover a new hidden depth knitted carefully and intrinsically through each book, story, life; a fragrance made from a costly oil of sweet spices – with every revelation a new ingredient that I add to my alabaster jar …
Mar 16 in Lent
Mar 16 in Lent