In Luke 15 and following Jesus tells us a number of parables, stories with a message, and one of them is about a lost sheep. Most of us will know this story well. A sheep is lost and the shepherd goes out to find it. The focus of the story isn’t the sheep, it’s the…

‘Love loves to be told what i already knows…it wants to be asked for what it longs to give.’ When we look at the Lord’s prayer and prayer in general, what do you make of the line, ‘give us this day our daily bread’? Do we think of it as presumptuous? Who am I to…

Over the last two weeks we have looked at the Lord’s prayer. Prayer is a huge privilege for us, this invitation that we have to come into the very presence of God. A God who longs for us to come to him. Jesus instructed his disciples in how to pray, and the Lord’s Prayer is…

‘…be imitators of God…’ Ephesians 5.1 That is some ask isn’t it. As others versions have it, follow God’s example, or watch what God does and do it. Talk about parents having high expectations for children. Here we are told that we are to imitate God, to be like him. Why? Paul puts it most…

‘Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms – to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.’ Viktor Frankl How often do you stop an ask, ‘what am I thinking.” How often do you consider the choices you are making;…

When Paul introduces himself as a prisoner for the Lord in Ephesians 3, he’s simply stating a fact. I wonder what we make of that introduction. So often we can miss them as we move quickly on. Does it remind us that Christianity is costly, it’s risky, it’s dangerous. Does it remind us that Paul…

Don’t miss this opportunity. This seems to be what Paul says to us. He says you have this incredible opportunity to meet with the creator God of the universe. That what seems impossible almost incomprehensible has been made possible by Jesus Christ – we can meet with God. So, Paul says, approach God with confidence,…