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On the frontlines

Feb 23, 2023 | Believe: Truth to Live by, QPUpdate

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...

Good news

Feb 16, 2023 | Believe: Truth to Live by, QPUpdate

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

Feb 9, 2023 | QPUpdate

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...

Sawing the branch you are sitting on?

Feb 2, 2023 | Believe: Truth to Live by, News, Teaching series

My daughter and son-in-law have just moved house. They have obtained, not only a new home but a garden, with diseased trees. Last week my son-in-law’s father posted a picture of himself astride a branch like a cowboy, with a chainsaw in hand ready for the cut. I...

The Fullness of Christ

Jan 26, 2023 | QPUpdate

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

Jan 19, 2023 | QPUpdate

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

Jan 12, 2023 | QPUpdate

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...

The Message in the Marketplace

Jan 5, 2023 | QPUpdate

Hello 2023! And welcome to a world changed by a global pandemic, economic recession and a war in Ukraine. Many of us are adjusting to personal worlds and work which have much changed. All of us are having to come to terms with the world as it is and not how it was....

Joy to the World

Dec 22, 2022 | Joy to the World, QPUpdate

‘Joy to the World’ is one of my favourite carols – yet it was written as a poem, not a song and not even for Christmas! Isaac Watts (1674-1748) the pastor hymn writer was tired of the church’s dullness in the sung worship of his day which consisted solely of Old...

Intertwined

Dec 15, 2022 | Joy to the World, QPUpdate

Last Sunday I used a painting of the meeting of Elizabeth and Mary as part of my sermon. While those of you in the building will have been able to see this image, those online could not, hence I’ve posted it here. I settled on using this image because the embrace, and...