The Long View

Christianity is concerned with the now. The now is all we have; as someone has once said, playing on the synonyms ‘gift’ and ‘present’ and on the dual use of the word ‘present’ in the English language (where it can mean both...

Questions and Answers

The book of Job has 42 chapters and tackles the universal question of why the innocent suffer. It debunks the notion that cause and effect are inevitably at the heart of suffering (‘we suffer because we sin’), and throughout the book we see different...

Developing A Growth Mindset

In our ‘Churches Together’ meeting today, we looked at developing a growth mindset. Developing a growth mindset means we commit ourselves to growing, which means: embracing new challenges (instead of running away from them) developing perseverance (instead...

Planting In Faith

The natural world around us shows us the importance of planting to growth. It’s true that weeds seem to sprout up anywhere and everywhere without any planting required, but if we want to have a beautiful garden, we must plan it and plant what we hope to grow. It...