Pray4Life: ‘I Did It My Way’

• Date:

  21-05-2012

• Author:

  Beverley Shepherd

It’s a favourite at funerals, or so I’m told by a friend who regularly officiates at the local crematorium. Mourners leave to the rousing notes of Frank Sinatra singing ‘My Way’...

Pray4Life: Connecting with the Father’s Heart

• Date:

  14-05-2012

• Author:

  Beverley Shepherd

The Father is watching. The father is waiting. The father is longing for his child to come home...

Parables (1): What’s the Point?

• Date:

  08-05-2012

• Author:

  Helen Parry

Asked by his disciples what this parable meant, Jesus said: ‘The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom...

The Lord’s Prayer (3): Our Father in Heaven

• Date:

  30-04-2012

• Author:

  Margaret Killingray

If you were to ask your fellow Christians in church next Sunday how they would answer the question ‘Where is heaven?’, I wonder what range of answers you would get...

The Lord’s Prayer (2): Our Father...

• Date:

  23-04-2012

• Author:

  Margaret Killingray

We are indeed sons of God through faith. But why not ‘sons and daughters’, or just ‘children’? Some, who come to faith having hardly ever read the Bible, are astonished at the use of masculine terms and pronouns for people...

The Lord’s Prayer (1): Familiarity...

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!

Shaped by the Story (9): Forgiveness and Freedom in Jesus

Shaped by the Story (8): A Manageable God?

Shaped by the Story (7): The Family Tree

Shaped by the Story (6): Renewing God’s People

Shaped by the Story (5): The Main Role

Shaped by the Story (4): Remembrance of Things Past

Shaped by the Story (3): Under New Management?

Shaped by the Story (2): The Promises of a Settled People

Shaped by the Story (1): Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Sons and Daughters

Swift to bless

Prayer: Transformational Power

Reasons not to pray

Prayer Works