Is retirement a Biblical concept? No says Rodney Macready, an Australian Baptist, in his book Retiring Retirement (Hendrickson, Peabody Massachusetts,
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My friend Alan is now free at last
Today I want to honour my friend, Alan Wilkinson, who died just a few days ago on 3 May 2017.
Continue readingJesus calls us to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves
Immediately following the sending out of the Twelve (Matt 10.5-15), Jesus declared: “See, I am sending you out like sheep
Continue readingMy four o’clock moment
Like any other minister, I have read time and again John’s account of the calling of the first two disciples
Continue readingTears on Easter Day
Mary Magdalene “stood weeping outside the tomb” (John 19.11). Her tears were not just because Jesus was dead, but rather
Continue readingJesus was thirsty: a reflection for Good Friday
Crucifixion was an awful agonising death. Yet strangely the New Testament gives few details about the torture involved. The one
Continue readingJesus uses us to build his church
Some 2000 years ago Jesus said to a handful of disciples: “I will build my church and the powers of
Continue readingLet’s be friends
“No man is an island”, declared John Donne. We are made to relate to others. “It is not good for
Continue readingMother Mary: a reflection for Mothering Sunday
Every young mother thinks her child is special. There is no other child as beautiful or as clever as her
Continue readingWill there be nothing to show that we were here?
Some months ago I revisited the town where for over 13 years I had been the pastor of the local
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