I Have Placed My Hope in a Crucified Man

Here is a link to a song by Graham Kendrick called I have placed my hope in a crucified man. I find it quite moving. It acknowledges the mystery of what we believe and also discusses the power of God to turn everything upside down.

Community

Preparing for the quiet day on Good Friday, an artist among us was asked to make a poster we can put outside the church so people passing feel invited to join in.

I was really touched by the sketches of the pressures of life that he has produced for that. Isn't it great that we all have different talents and passions and isn't community an awesome thing when people are able to use what they are good at as part of our worship?

I can't draw like Steve, or create gardens, or play instruments but it is all the little bits of what we do that make up our worship and it is beautiful.

The centre of the bible!

You may have seen this before but it's still amazing.  I have prayed for anyone who reads this, that they will be blessed by God in the coming week.

Book Review - John

I have just enjoyed reading 'John' by Niall Williams. It is a novel about a group of people around the apostle John. They lived on Patmos with him into his old age and then just shortly before his death returned to Ephesus. They lived in the expectation that Jesus would return in power any minute now. When they returned to Ephesus they had to contend with the chaos of a city that was desperately looking for God, in some very strange places and things didn't go as they had expected.
The author writes that he was not intending to write this book, he just wondered one day what John was doing the day before he wrote his gospel and then couldn't leave it alone.