Reflection of the Week - 5 October 2021
Why are some times better than others? Why do some yearn for the ‘good old days’ or look forward to the ‘green pastures’ that lie ahead? Isn’t today enough?
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A Resilient Theology
Recently, Kirsty Bucknell, an organisational psychologist and doctoral student at Macquarie University, released some of her and her colleagues’ research on resilience.[1] As part of it they surveyed 277 ‘ministry workers’ from across Australia measuring the relationship between self-reflection, insight, ruminations, resilience and well-being.
Reflection of the Week - 28 September 2021
There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us. This universal force is LOVE.
Reflection of the Week - 21 September 2021
We are a word driven society. What we say and do has instant impact to those around us.
Reflection of the Week - 14 September 2021
The world is not simply there. Everything and everyone we see, we view through the lenses of our thoughts.
Reflection of the Week - 7 September 2021
Jesus calls us to keep our eyes, ears and hearts open to all.
Reflection of the Week - 31 August 2021
It is easy enough to take in good stuff; we come to church, we read our Bibles, we pray, we listen to fabulous sermons and even play Christian music … somehow over the hours that follow, the good stuff then gets changed as it passes through us.
Reflection of the Week - 24 August 2021
A gift only becomes a gift when it is received ...
Reflection of the Week - 17 August 2021
In his most vulnerable state, Solomon’s dream expressed his true nature (1 Kings 3:5-14).
Reflection of the Week - 10 August 2021
We can live our life controlled by competition, abuse of power, coercion, unforgiving and taxing expectations, and self-centred gain, influenced by the fear of never being good enough, fast enough, canny enough, or worthwhile.
Reflection of the Week - 3 August 2021
God’s call to humanity has been consistent since the genesis of time.
Reflection of the Week - 27 July 2021
King David pursued the presence of God throughout his time as King.
Reflection of the Week - 20 July 2021
Paul must have lifted the spirits of the Church of Ephesus with this letter!
Reflection of the Week - 13 July 2021
Paul must have lifted the spirits of the Church of Ephesus with this letter!
Reflection of the Week - 6 July 2021
Give God the first moments of your day. ‘Early will I seek you,’ Psalm 63:1.
Reflection of the Week - 29 June 2021
Psalm 130 is also one of seven penitential psalms in the Bible.
Reflection of the Week - 22 June 2021
Whether running a home or building a house, working at a factory or supporting a ministry there is one vital principal that is all-embracing, all our undertakings require a total dependence upon God.
Reflection of the Week - 15 June 2021
Farming is a purposeful activity. A combination of watching and waiting, listening and learning, living with creation and responding in hope.
Reflection of the Week - 8 June 2021
We often hear people bemoan that the Church is dying. Is it? Or is it looking differently to how it was? And is that okay?
Reflection of the Week - 1 June 2021
I can remember speaking at an ecumenical conference some years ago and mentioning the Trinity. During the question time a Methodist minister commented ‘oh that’s the Sunday Methodist ministers have off and the service is left to the lay preachers.’