Be careful who you follow, be careful who you listen to.
In Micah 3, the prophet Micah moves on to address two groups of people in particular: the leaders and the prophets. The leaders are the rulers of Israel: those who should be setting an...
Author: Helen Redfern
Human plans and God’s plans
Human plans are not God’s plans. Whilst God created human beings in His own image, there came a point, as depicted in the the story of Adam and Eve, where human beings broke away...
One eye on the future: how that looks for me in practice
Yesterday, I talked about living fully in the present, but with one eye on the future.By that I mean with an awareness of how the decisions and actions I take today will affect the...
Say hello to Micah
Today we meet Micah. A prophet of God. He was around at the same time as Isaiah and they both speak a similar message, but they come from very different backgrounds. Isaiah mixes with...
God, why on earth would you do that?
When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. Jonah 3:10 ‘They’ being the Assyrians, the...
How other people might respond when we talk about God…
Resurrection is not the end of the story. In many ways, it’s just the beginning. Jonah’s story does not end with him being saved from the belly of the whale. There’s no ‘And he lived...
Resurrection changes a person
When Jesus came back to life after three days in the tomb, he was changed. He still looked like a human. He still behaved like a human – he walked and talked, he ate...
This is resurrection
And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. Jonah 2:10 OK, so it may not have been pretty and perfect; it may have been messy and smelly; it was...
Finding words for that Easter Saturday feeling
From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. Jonah 2:1 It was all he could do. In the depths of despair, Jonah was striving to find a language for his pain....
Jonah: misunderstood and under-rated
Jonah, he lived in a whale Jonah, he lived in a whale He made his home in that fish’s abdomen Jonah, he lived in a whale From ‘It ain’t necessarily so’ Apologies. Had...
