…Journeying With Jesus Through The Cross
Chapter 11 Wrestle 'The Lord will fight for you...’ Exodus 14:14 Read Genesis 28:11-22 and Genesis 32:22-28 The footprints of history are deep, trailing lines in the dusty earth, script lines, lines to live repeatedly-without-thinking by, lines running back through time, lines first spoken in a garden long ago. Lie, manipulate, defraud and steal... Continue Reading →
Chapter 8 Broken Light 'Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings... ...For... Continue Reading →
Chapter Five Falling... ‘The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.’ Isaiah 9:2 Read Genesis chapter 3: 1-24 How do I look this child in the face and tell her everything is going to be okay when the reality... Continue Reading →
The thing is, underneath it all, so often we’re not sure. Not sure who we are, not sure that we’re valuable, not sure where to place our feet in all this whirling world. Questions haunt the corridors of our minds, the edges of our identities, pouncing on us from the shadows when we find ourselves alone with our thoughts. Who are we? What does it all mean? Are we loved? Are we significant?
Chapter Two Loved. 'Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.' 1 John 4:8 ‘We love because he first loved us’ 1 John 4:19 'love one another as I have loved you' John 13:34 Read: Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:18-24 Some sickness is easy to diagnose, like blotches on skin or a... Continue Reading →
Chapter One ‘Dust and Breath’ ‘The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life’Job 33:4 Read Genesis 2:7 and Job 33:4 Standing on the edge of our own mortality can be the strangest place to be. Yet it is a place every one of us will stand one... Continue Reading →
