Jesus spent around three years traveling and teaching before his crucifixion. Yet all four gospels give overwhelmingly more attention to one week, the week that led up to and included the events of what we now call Easter, than to…

Ask and you shall receive Our conversations with God will to some extent be a reflection of our conversations with others, because we have learned what to expect and how to respond by experience. So perhaps the biggest influence on…

Some conversations are harder than others. As we have seen over the previous weeks, the innocent can be wrongly accused and the patient can feel like failures, when all the time it was out of their control. This week’s conversation…

This week’s topic is demonstrated in a relatively short story, at least in it’s telling. Like many stories there was a lot that happened over many years prior. Hannah’s story sits at the beginning of 1 Samuel.  As a whole…

Joseph’s story can be read in Genesis chapters 37 through to 50. Joseph was the first born son of Rachel and the 11th of the 12 sons of Jacob. If you read the account of how this family came to…

In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand…

The story of Abraham and Sarah can be read in Genesis, starting in chapter 12 and going through to chapter 23. The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land…