Posts Tagged ‘Hope’

Finding light in the darkness

10, Mar 2009

Lord Jesus Christ, you are for me medicine when I am sick;
you are my strength when I need help;
you are life itself when I fear death;
you are the way when I long for heaven;
you are light when all is dark;
you are my food when I need nourishment.
—Ambrose of Milan (340-397)

Freedom, Safety, and the Value of Truth

4, Mar 2009

Adrian Plass in his book “Jesus: Safe, Tender, Extreme, talks about an exercise his wife, Bridget, and he led with a group of Christians. The aim, apart from writing a group poem is to show just how diverse and “granular” the body of Christ actually is.
What they do is hand out small pieces of paper [...]

Our Blood is the Same Colour!

27, Jan 2009

An inspiring message from a region of controversy! What struck me the most was the phrase “Our blood is the same colour…” Around the world today, not just with Gaza and Israel, intense struggles consume many on the basis of race, sex, age, ability, and various other claims. Yet under the surface we are all [...]

Why I like Queeny at Christmas

26, Dec 2008

Okay, so some may scoff at me for being a royalist or the like, tuning in to such an old fashioned tradition. I mean, what does the queen have to offer us today? How on earth can she have anything to relate to us as she sits on her throne in a palace far removed [...]


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