The winds of unwelcome change blow harsh through all our lives. Last week we looked at the challenge of negotiating the changes that come our way. Today I want to continue that theme, and reflect on the relationship between change and personal renewal. Long ago the psalmist wrote these words: As a deer longs for …
The winds of change and me
Last week I quoted the refrain of an old hymn, “All may change, but Jesus never,” and I talked about the consistency and reliability of Jesus. Today I want to talk about the first phrase in that refrain: “All may change.” SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA - 2018/09/01: Upward view of giant sequoias in Sequoia National …
Jesus and the winds of change
As a young child in Wollongong, I learned a lot of hymns and songs at Sunday School, in church, and at home listening to Burl Ives LP records. Burl was a challenge to my tiny mind, since as well as revivalist hymns he also sang patriotic American songs, and colonial Australian songs such as …
God and the winds of change
Each of us has our own unique experience of 2020, the year that brought us a disruptive pandemic, and our own perspective on what it all means. But one thing we all share in common: we have all felt the winds of change, and those winds are with us now. We call it “the new …
Then I saw a Lamb
In chapters four and five of the Book of Revelation, the Apostle John records an unfolding vision of life as it is in heaven. There is a magnificent throne on which Almighty God is seated, surrounded by 24 lesser thrones occupied by 24 elders, and four mysterious “living creatures,” ceaselessly rendering praise and thanksgiving to …
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