By Pastor Jon You know what follows 1? 1.01? Okay, smarty-pants… 2. Day 2 – January 2nd, 2019. If you haven’t already, read the thesis, which introduces this idea, before you begin. And do your best to catch-up on Day One. Day 2/365 <+> Genesis 4-7 <+> <+> Psalm 2 <+> <+> Matthew 3-4 <+> Full-Credit Fitzpatrick to …
By Pastor Jon And so it begins. If you haven’t already, read the thesis, which introduces this idea, before you begin. Day 1/365 <+> Genesis 1-3 <+> <+> Psalm 1 <+> <+> Matthew 1-2 <+> Full-Credit Fitzpatrick to the ESV iPhone App. All rights theirs. Also, these Reading Plans are located on the Web. The PDFs: Chronological, Psalms, …
By Pastor Jon This is going to blow your mind on the first day of the year of RELOVUTIONARY, but I am going there like the number one destination-spot on the planet. I still think that is New Zealand. Not sure if Palmerston North is part of that equation, but we won’t take it too …
By Pastor Jon I awoke today after a rather vividly weird dream, doing my best to cast-off the lingering effects. It was like I was still inside the ideas that had been pumping and reverberating inside my rapid eye movement, even as my pupils were very much standing to their own attention. I am not …
By Pastor Jon It is the day before Christmas 2018 in Aotearoa, which is New Zealand. If you are reading these words on that day, chances are – in a providential sense – you are either very organised or rebelling against the hectic expectations of this seasonal commercialised divergence. Congratulations. That could be characterised as …
By Pastor Jon You likely have already presumed when reading through a series that a subsequent piece will encourage you to read the former. I wouldn’t want to offend your presuming intelligence, especially in such a season as this, so if you haven’t already read the first in this three-part series, do so… HERE and …
By Pastor Jon When I was tracking through that significant initial personal growth phase, which we each tend to enter somewhere either side of our twentieth birthday, one of the comforting realisations through this period was the interconnectedness of Jesus the Messiah in Divine Written Revelation. You may be thinking, “Okay, but what exactly do …
By Pastor Jon I am a Protestant for many reasons. Rejecting the perpetual virginity of Mary is not really one of them. It is like an added extra; like that quintessential set of steak knives from the infomercial. “Yes, you do need a second set” goes the excited voice-over! And I do think a simple …
By Pastor Jon It is such a special season when those in close vicinity have a baby born into their world, especially when this child will be their first. If you have real relational proximity, you may have journeyed through the various levels of conversation about what to expect-when-you-can-not-really-expect. As the days begin to both …
By Pastor Jon Have you thought about what the relative lack of church planting in New Zealand communicates? I have. Let me suggest this affirms a lack of true realised love and responsible care for this nation’s humanity in the call of the Gospel; a lack of trust in the provision of Jesus, coupled with …