Devotions

Harsh words from Jesus? He certainly didn’t seem to mince his words! Reading this passage again, I wonder what it means for someone, or how…

One of the questions I have asked myself is, “Did Jesus know he was the Messiah or the Son of God?” Now, it’s a good…

I remember as a kid, one of the things I hated was my mum taking her handkerchief, licking it, then wiping muck off my face…

Whenever I read this passage from Mark’s gospel, I always feel kinda sorry for the disciples. It is a bit of a face-palm moment. They…

Today’s Bible reading comes from what we call the ‘wisdom literature’. There’s so much in these eight verses, but I wonder, if like me, there…

Okay, so Paul can get a little ‘wordy’ but the point he is making is that without the resurrection of Jesus, our faith is worthless….

Luke 5:8-11. You may or may not be a follower of Jesus. You may not have let Jesus shine God’s love and mercy into your…

Where the **** is Dalmanutha? Did you know that no-one knew where Dalmanutha was until recently, when in 2013, archaeologists discovered a 2000 year old…

The thing about forgiveness is that, for it to affect the forgiven, it has to be mediated. Think of forgiveness like a gift being held…

Is it me or is there some banter and sassiness in this exchange between Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman? There’s a whole heap of stuff…

Back in first century Palestine, if you were a Jewish person, there were all kinds of purity laws about what you could or could not…

I always think of Psalm 8 when I think of our God-given mandate to look after creation. The psalm sweeps from the heavens down into…