Breaking Bread

It’s through the breaking of bread that Jesus invites each of us to recognise him in our innermost being. He invites us to see and be seen. It's a tender, vulnerable moment, an echo of another meal, on another night, an echo that reverberates onwards into Christian communities throughout the ages.

Join me on the road

This undercover Christ walks along with them. He goes at their pace, walks their road of grief.

Hungry for Bread

The Christmas Story reminds us that we’re all invited to come to God, to know and be known by Jesus. We’re invited to bring our appetites, our hunger and neediness and receive Jesus: the Bread of Life.

Christmas at the Movies: It’s A Wonderful Life

This is what Christmas is about: the God who loves us enough to meet us at the well, weaving His very self into each of our stories.

Christmas at the Movies: The Grinch

The thing that I love most about God’s Table is that there’s always room for more. The table simply grows because God’s love is so much bigger than we can even begin to imagine.

Rediscovering Sabbath

Sabbath isn’t meant to be limited to twenty-four hours. The way we live, work and rest can mesh into the life-giving pattern of God’s design for worship, if only we listen to our bodies.

God’s Kingdom Economy

Jesus shows that generosity is the norm in God’s Kingdom. Wherever God’s Kingdom is made known, we can expect to show unreasonable, unmerited generosity to others because we ourselves have already received freely from the ultimate gift-giver.

Father, Forgive Them

Sitting at the foot of the cross is the perfect space for us to pour out our grief and shame and hurt without having to dress it up as celebration. Because the cross is designed to draw in the broken. It’s not the place where well-educated, affluent first-century men were killed. The cross was reserved for the lowest of the low – for the outcast, the slaves, the criminals… and yet somehow for Jesus – God made human.

When God Prunes Us

This is the imagery Jesus draws on to show us a pattern for how to flourish as His followers – that of a gardener carefully cultivating the living vine. He teaches us that what might feel counterintuitive – cutting away some good things – is all about God making way for something new to grow.

#Longing 2 Your Will Be Done

In seasons of waiting, the agony that so often prevails arises from the friction of dwelling in the Spirit yet living in our imperfect world. We learn more about Godly peace as we grow into the lifelong practice of submission to God’s will. Of course, this is rarely easy or clear-cut.

Longing #1: Your Kingdom Come

This season of stillness, waiting and longing creates space for us to acknowledge the tension between clinging to the promise ‘Your kingdom come’ and living in a broken world.

Written in the Wilderness

If we only tell of how God wins in the end, but leave out the journey, we lose out on the learning. When we gloss over the difficult times, the hidden places and the wandering in the wilderness spaces, we reduce God to the hero who runs in to save the sidekick a mere minute before the credits roll. We lose out on the beautiful tenderness of a Father who waits with us in the wilderness even when we can’t see Him.