What has the start of a New Year meant for you on your life journey? Some start the year with ‘Resolutions’ which they really, truly intend to keep or achieve. Sadly many are never realised. Summer is well and truly … Continue reading →
Whilst stores have had Christmas paraphernalia since at least September, the Christian season of Advent [hoping, longing, expectation and waiting] begins as of 3rd December. With the news of recent events of such horror, injustice, tragedy and grief there are … Continue reading →
As we enter November many of you will have noticed that many stores have already had Christmas paraphernalia on the shelves since late September. Talk about being ready! During this month the focus will be on Scripture readings that speak … Continue reading →
We begin October with the start of Day Light Saving! For the Christian Church this time continues to be the Season after Pentecost, which began on June 11 and we find ourselves in the middle of the wilderness with the … Continue reading →
We begin September with the nationwide celebration of Father’s Day. For some of us this is an exciting day to honour our fathers, grandfathers and other father-figures in our lives. For others today is a day of grief – of … Continue reading →
As we enter into the 8th month of 2017, we may question how it is that the year flies by so quickly! Is it our busy lifestyles? Is it the pace of technology that impacts on so many aspects of … Continue reading →
In Direction Journal Fall 1998 · Vol. 27 No. 2 · pp. 148–56, author Rachel Baerg writes… ’Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was destined to have become a minister of the Word; his father and grandfather were both Calvinist preachers. He … Continue reading →
I am reading Philip Yancey’s book ‘Vanishing Grace’ published in 2014. Philip ponders what exactly the church as to offer a broken world and asks why, to outsiders, Christians often seem to be bearers of bad, rather than good, news. … Continue reading →
Greetings During Easter we journeyed through the darkness of rejection, betrayal, fear, violence, isolation, death and grief. We know that this is part of Jesus’ experience on earth. His hands and feet, which he revealed to the frightened disciples hiding … Continue reading →
Lefevre endeavors to be a place of hospitality to all who enter in. The author Henri Nouwen puts it this way: Hospitality is the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an … Continue reading →