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Just Thinking…In a world filled with wars and rumours of wars, of people, like Putin and situations like Ukraine, it is good to remember the words of Psalm 2: Why the big noise, nations? Why the mean plots, peoples? Earth-leaders push for position, Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks, The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers: “Let’s…

Just Thinking…One of the questions I cycle around to again and again in living is, “Lord, where are you in this?” And the ‘this’ in question is usually a situation which I am finding challenging. I don’t always see what God is wishing to achieve through these times, but sometimes I do, and the thing that…

Just Thinking…Today, we farewelled a beloved member of our church.  It got me thinking… If you had three sentences to sum up your life … …  three sentences to be read at your funeral … … what would you want to have read out? This is your homework for this week! In Him Murray This Sunday…This…

Just Thinking…Today, we farewelled a beloved member of our church.  It got me thinking… If you had three sentences to sum up your life … …  three sentences to be read at your funeral … … what would you want to have read out? This is your homework for this week! In Him Murray This Sunday…This…

Just Thinking…We woke this morning to the news that the Queen has died. She has been the longest reigning British monarch, ruling for 70 years. No doubt there will be many tributes, recollections, speculations, pageantry and video montages over the coming days. A comment made by someone on the news this morning, however, sticks in…

Just Thinking…I don’t know if you are a ‘Lord of the Rings’ fan? There are a few of them to be found in my house, and because of that, some interest in Amazon Prime’s Rings of Power series which is soon to be released (although on yet another streaming platform!!!!). I was reading some musings from a Tolkien fan,…

Just Thinking…Who would want to be Ian Foster at the moment? The airwaves have been full of scathing words against the All Black coach as people questioned his ability, his track-record, his strategy and his choices. The recent series against Ireland, where the visitors scored an historic series win against the AB’s seemed to turn…

Just Thinking…At a previous house, I used to have a flower bush growing beneath my window. I don’t know the name of it. I recall that it looked a bit like a daisy, with white petals and an orange centre, but the thing I most remember about it was that the petals closed at night…

Just Thinking…This coming Sunday is our third and final Sunday in our Renew Together journey. This year, the NZ Baptist Missionary Society (NZBMS) has asked us to focus on three values which underpin the way they will seek to further God’s mission of hope in the world. The first week, we looked at Mutual Humility….

Just Thinking…My youngest was this week required to create a travel brochure on the Cook Islands for homework – on the account of it being Cook Island language week (I know … I hadn’t realised that either!). In the process of his research into the various attractions on offer in the Cooks, he came across…