Sep 23, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
Gears for God This week I heard a man interviewed who “makes gears for God”. Yes, you heard right. He was called out of “the Ministry” to turn his family manufacturing business into ministry, a kingdom company. His company became his congregation to serve and witness...
Sep 15, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News
PURPOSEFUL WAITING …FAITHFULLY PRESENT I wonder, how you are with waiting? I would guess that for those of us who use public transport waiting on a bus or a train can, not only be frustrating but, seem like wasted time. Indeed, oftentimes waiting can seem like wasted...
Sep 9, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News, QPLive
How do you sleep? To be honest I am grateful to be one of the “out-like-a-light” types, though my wife worries that I would sleep through a burglary conducted by the pipes and drums of the Scots guards. This week we are thinking dreams and the apocalyptic visions of...
Sep 1, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News, QPLive
I am enormously impressed by Daniel and his friends, and their resilience through the trauma of being torn away from their homes and exiled to Babylon at a young and very impressionable age. They didn’t let that experience result in a root of bitterness against the...
Aug 25, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News, QPLive
Déjà vu I vividly remember walking into the living room a number of years ago and being greeted by a four-year-old who, proudly pointing to the large scrawl of dark blue felt pen all over the cream painted wall, declared, “Look, Mum, Mene, Mene, Tickle, Parsnip.” I...
Aug 18, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
Are we there yet? Long journeys… remember them? Perhaps, with Covid restrictions easing, you have ventured further afield to visit friends or family, or you’ve gone somewhere just for the joy of being somewhere different. It strikes me that on most long journeys...
Aug 12, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
Oh, the things we teach our kids! Children’s ministry as I, at least, recall was spattered with stories of fear, violence, and war. I remember exactly where and when I first heard the story of the fiery furnace and the impossible-to-pronounce names of Shadrach,...
Aug 5, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
Faithfully present – the title of our new series, but what does it look like? In the coming weeks we will be continuing to explore this through all our Sunday services and as we let you know about other things that are happening in the life of QP. More detail...
Jul 29, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
This week I have had the privilege of hanging out with a number of our young people for Magnitude (a Christian youth festival). We have had great fun laughing together, getting to know one another and thinking more about God’s call on our lives. It has been great to...
