the waiting country

In Mark 4:26-29, our Lord Jesus continues his teaching with another 'nature parable'. The man who scatters seed into the ground - ex...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the ugliest of all? Well, obviously, it's me; it's you. At least that's probably how it feel...

Having been called by God to go from his country, his people and his father’s household, to the land promised to him by the Lord (Gen. 12:1)...

Are there days when you feel like you’ve lost before you’ve even begun? Many of us would say we’ve often felt like that. And it might be tha...

​ "​ Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much...

There are times when forgetting the past is the exact right thing to try to do. You've got to move on; maturity demands it, is tied to i...

So many voices have been silenced during lockdown, but maybe not the ones you long would fade and fall away. The snide remarks, the belittli...

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......