Feb 19, 2026 | Lent Reflections, News, QPUpdate
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. As I write on Wednesday, Christians across the globe are having the cross smeared in ashes on their foreheads as Lent begins. For those of us in the more quirky, informal branches of God’s family, Lent can appear to be a depressing season...
Feb 12, 2026 | News, QPUpdate, Rise Up
“The heavens are like brass” “I feel like I am shouting at the ceiling!” “If God loves me why does he not answer my questions, my plea for help?” Many of us can identify with moments when heaven is silent and God appears deaf to our earnest requests. These are...
Feb 4, 2026 | News, QPUpdate, Rise Up
A Wee Story I find it hard not to be jealous of incredibly gifted people, be they athletes, artists, writers, and in particular, musicians. One of my favourite musicians is Cory Wong, and his collaboration with the amazing Metropole Orkest, Starship Syncopation, is an...
Jan 29, 2026 | News, QPUpdate, Rise Up
Isaiah 42:3a – “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.” Hello family and friends of QPBC! This coming Sunday we are so excited to have 3 of our young people being baptised as a sign of their faith in...
Jan 22, 2026 | News, QPUpdate, Rise Up
“Do not fear for I am with you.” This promise from Isaiah 41:10 is pronounced at bedsides and gravesides, in the face of personal trauma and global terror, and has offered comfort and assurance to millions. Here is a wonderful promise from God to be received,...
Jan 14, 2026 | News, QPNews, QPUpdate, Rise Up
There are countless amazing places in the world I have not been to. But I am privileged enough to have travelled to some fantastic places and experienced their different cultures and breathtaking landscapes. Yet nothing, in my humble opinion, quite beats the beauty...
Jan 8, 2026 | News, QPUpdate, Rise Up
“New year, new me” must be the world’s shortest-lived commitment. For the majority of us, our best intentions to lose weight, get fitter, save more and spend less don’t see the light of February. And, as for humanity’s annual Christmas resolve to work for peace and...
Dec 17, 2025 | And on the earth peace, QPUpdate
This is a phrase we often use as an encouragement to mutual action or adventure. It certainly was that for the shepherds outside Bethlehem on that first Christmas night. (Luke 2:15-20) They had just had the incredible experience of hearing the angelic announcement of...
Dec 11, 2025 | And on the earth peace, Christmas, News, QPUpdate
You have probably heard the phrase before, ‘peace on earth and goodwill to all’. That phrase comes from the gospel of Luke, but it is not quite what the text itself says. Let’s read it together: 8 Now in that same region there were shepherds living in the fields,...
Dec 4, 2025 | And on the earth peace, News, QPUpdate
What on earth!!! Receiving any sad or happy news can be a shock. In my work as a midwife, it has been my privilege and pain to meet folks who have had events happen in their lives over which they had no control. Just last week a lady was given news she was having not...
