Happy New Year?

Happy New Year?

Yes, you have read the title of this blog right and yes, the question mark is playing a very important role in this title! This Monday, 21st March, is نوروز , Nowruz, the Persian new year, when our brothers and sisters from Iran traditionally say goodbye to winter and...
Happy New Year?

Grace or grudge – you choose.

Payback culture, it’s the way the world works. You scratch my back and I scratch yours. You hurt me and I expect compensation. You let me down and I demand you make it up to me. It’s the law of Karma where our misdemeanours must be atoned for by our good deeds lest we...
Happy New Year?

Faithful

Is God faithful? A few weeks back, via some glitch with our song presentation software we found ourselves singing, “Is God faithful?”   The answer is, of course, a resounding “yes, God is faithful” as a multitude of songs proclaim. Yet the question mark chimes with...
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On the frontlines

On 24th February 2022 Russian tanks crossed the Northern Ukrainian border signalling the “special military operation” which planned to take Kyiv and decapitate the government of Volodymyr Zelenskyy within hours. That did not happen. Instead, a protracted and brutal...
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Good news

When it comes to bad news, we must be near saturation point. So, in a world of relentless and unmitigated tragedy let me tell a good news story. Hatay, Turkey lies close to biblical Antioch from where Paul and Barnabas were commissioned to go and preach the gospel....
Syria & Turkey

Syria & Turkey

While this blog is posted on a Thursday, it is (obviously) written earlier in the week. So, I am writing (trying to write) on Tuesday morning with my head full of images of collapsed buildings, death, and loss from the Syria / Turkey earthquake, the scale of which is...
The Fullness of Christ

The Fullness of Christ

Ephesians 4: 11 – 13 is, I suspect, a rather well-known passage of scripture,. Yet, tucked away in the middle of Ephesians chapter 4, at the end of this familiar section, is a most curious phrase: the fullness of Christ. Always New I wonder if you, like me, have read...
Surrender

Surrender

Good evening! Or good morning – if that’s when you arrive here. I’m Josh Silver, the new lead for youth and young adults and I have been mightily touched by the warm welcome I have received so far. The QP family have opened their loving arms ever so graciously toward...
Spare

Spare

I don’t have to tell you which publication has just shattered the British record for the best-selling nonfiction book. “Spare” by Prince Harry has dominated the headlines and unleashed a flood of revelations about his life and relationships. Cultural commentator...