Thanks to Sir David Attenborough and others, television has revealed many natural wonders to us over the past seventy years … in the depths of the earth, in the crevices of volcanoes and 60,000 feet deep at the bottom of the oceans, … There are plants – the amazing root systems of trees that communicate with each other, fungi and insects, fish and plankton … Let God fill you with wonder and joy at all that he has created … [To read more, click on title]
Tag Archives: creation
Surprises
Jesus – the Christ, the Messiah, the Word, the Creator – was birthed amongst what he had made, this world, so he was at home here, and acted to liberate humanity from all that spoils life here … [To read more, click on title]
The ‘Why’ of Repentance
We find ourselves once again on the banks of the River Jordan with John the Baptist. We should be used to it by now, but that wild prophet John still jars as a a party-pooper as we look toward Christmas … [to read more, click on title]
What’s Outside Your Gate?
Admit it: society thinks of the well-to-do as ‘somebody’, treating them with respect and honour, while we treat the destitute with scorn and judgment. We think of them as a ‘nobody’.
In Jesus’s story of a rich man and a poor man notice how he reverses that. The rich man is not named; other than his riches he’s nobody in particular. But the poor man is somebody. He has a name: Lazarus … [To read more, click on the title]
