'Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.' Proverbs 13:12 Our 2026 Advent Journal, 'The Thrill of Hope' The Christmas carol 'O Holy Night' includes the well-known lyric 'A thrill of hope... the weary world rejoices'. And oh, what a weary world we are living in. The headlines (if you dare to read them) are full of woe which I refuse to give any more airtime here. You know them, the broken people involved in them and the pain caused by poo

Why Lent? We often have people asking us, “Why Lent?” Why do we produce a resource for this time of year? Is Lent actually helpful for Christians today, or is it just a legalistic, historical practice? How did Lent begin? There isn’t a definitive answer as to how Lent started. Some historians believe that what began as a short pre-Easter fast eventually developed into a 40-day fast shortly after the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. There is also evidence linking Lent to a perio

Our Advent journals this year are titled ‘Waiting for Jesus’. There are lots of things in life that we have to wait for, and there are lots of different ways that we can wait. We can wait impatiently and excitedly for good things like birthdays, big celebrations and Christmas. We can wait in discomfort and fear for other things, like exams, medical procedures and deadlines. Advent is a time of waiting. Over hundreds of years, Christians have used this season to reflect on Go

Have you ever opened your Bible and thought “Where do I start?” We have! We always used to struggle to be consistent in our Bible reading...

Photo by Cherry Laithang on Unsplash Throughout the month of October 2024 we read and wrote out the whole of the book of Joel using one...

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