‘Woman, here is your son...’ ‘Here is your mother.’ (John 19:26-27) Death is never merely an abstraction, something to be studied philosophically or with academic interest only. Death touches each one of us at some point in our lives. Those we love and care for are...

As we prepare to celebrate Easter, we are forced to contemplate that the events of this Holy Week were all part of God's perfect plan, even though things seemed to be going so wrong for Jesus and His disciples. Col 1:19  reveals what God was doing through the betrayal...

‘Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit.’ (Luke 23:46) Jesus has clearly moved from the place of dereliction and forsakenness to the place of childlike trust and simplicity. This is a prayer of security prayed in the most horrendous of circumstances. Many of us...