How places and people can change us……..
Peer pressure is not always as blatant as ‘I won’t be your friend if you won’t do this!’ or ‘Come on! Everyone’s doing it! Stop being such a coward!’. Peer pressure can be much...
Author: Helen Redfern
Getting into unknown territory…..
So the water runs out and the people turn on Aaron and Moses. Moses’ sister Miriam has died. The people wish that they had never left Egypt. They blame Aaron and Moses for leading...
Physical reminders of unseen things…….
The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and get twelve staffs from them, one from the leader of each of their ancestral tribes. Write the name of each man on his staff....
Body parts
Let me tell you a story. There were once three men called Korah, Dathan and Abiram. They were from the tribe of Levi, the people set aside to serve in the Tabernacle. Now this...
Living with Plan B
Just an aside about when things don’t go according to plan…………I didn’t get the job I was going for. Thought you might like to know. And actually, that feels OK. It’s made me realise...
So how does God fit in with all this?
So yesterday we saw how God showed the envoys the joys of the Promised Land and how most of them then got cold feet. Joshua and Caleb tried to convince the people that it...
Dreams and risks and comfort zones…….
Exploring Canaan God commands Moses to send a leader from each ancestral tribe ahead to explore Canaan. To travel out of their comfort zone and into the unknown. Into the land of their dreams,...
The realities of rivalry……..
My sister used to attend a church when her kids were young where they said a prayer every week thanking God for the ‘joys of family life’. Some weeks she could wholeheartedly say those...
So are you one of the Vinegar Veras or Polyannas of this world?
Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts...
We never have to walk alone……
On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the covenant law. Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and...
