the waiting country

Walking with the Wise (Psalm 1) When days seem to merge into each other, with few dividing lines, it's important to remind ourselves t...

To seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:1-10) For a few weeks our society seemed mostly united, gathered around the approach being taken to ...

The renewal of all things (Mt. 19:28) For the past weeks - in reality, months - the sound of birdsong has been heard with unusual clarity,...

Do you love me? (John 21:15-22) "Do you love me?" That's quite a question to be asked. Sometimes the answer can be a casual...

You couldn't accuse the apostle Paul of being conservative in his praying, of being limited in what he asked and hoped for. Ephesians 3:...

Delighting in the Servant of the LORD (Isaiah 42:1-4) In the first of Isaiah's servant songs, the LORD speaks of his Servant, with ...

Such Great Faith (Matthew 8:5-13) If ever there was a time that called for great faith, it feels like this is it. Our whole society is in ...

The beams of this spiritual Sun don’t only refresh but restore the souls of believers. Thus it is said that the Sun of righteousness [shall...

It's getting lighter earlier in the morning and lingering longer in the evening. Spring is so very welcome. Yet the days are, in another...

"Everything we need" 2 Peter 1:3 What do you need to get you through these days? They seem to hold unique demands and challenges...

None of us knows what will happen next. All we can say is that it looks like life won't be the same again, whatever that might mean. And...

The Christian life, from one angle, is the long journey of letting our natural assumption about who God is, over many decades, fall away, b...

"Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed......

"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear..." (John 16:12) We have many questions and, often, so few answers. ...

Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters - Wesley Hill Paul, Apostle of Liberty - Richard Longenecker When th...

Do not weep (Revelation 5) From within his isolation and exile on Patmos, John tells us, "I wept and wept." But these were not ...

"Cain reaches for a kind of substitute for eternity by fathering a son and attempting to create a lineage. He initiates a city in his s...

This is from a chapter reflecting on Calvin's work in A Pastoral Rule for Today : The Company of Pastors embodied three practices desi...

The voice of the risen Lord (Revelation 1) As the book of Revelation opens, the apostle John, the beloved disciple of Jesus, is in exile o...

The word that sustains the weary (Isaiah 50) As you wake on this Good Friday morning you may feel weary. Many of us are at the moment - p...