Sep 23, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
Gears for God This week I heard a man interviewed who “makes gears for God”. Yes, you heard right. He was called out of “the Ministry” to turn his family manufacturing business into ministry, a kingdom company. His company became his congregation to serve and witness...
Sep 9, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News, QPLive
How do you sleep? To be honest I am grateful to be one of the “out-like-a-light” types, though my wife worries that I would sleep through a burglary conducted by the pipes and drums of the Scots guards. This week we are thinking dreams and the apocalyptic visions of...
Sep 1, 2021 | Faithfully Present, News, QPLive
I am enormously impressed by Daniel and his friends, and their resilience through the trauma of being torn away from their homes and exiled to Babylon at a young and very impressionable age. They didn’t let that experience result in a root of bitterness against the...
Aug 18, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
Are we there yet? Long journeys… remember them? Perhaps, with Covid restrictions easing, you have ventured further afield to visit friends or family, or you’ve gone somewhere just for the joy of being somewhere different. It strikes me that on most long journeys...
Aug 12, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
Oh, the things we teach our kids! Children’s ministry as I, at least, recall was spattered with stories of fear, violence, and war. I remember exactly where and when I first heard the story of the fiery furnace and the impossible-to-pronounce names of Shadrach,...
Aug 5, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
Faithfully present – the title of our new series, but what does it look like? In the coming weeks we will be continuing to explore this through all our Sunday services and as we let you know about other things that are happening in the life of QP. More detail...
Jul 29, 2021 | Faithfully Present, QPLive
This week I have had the privilege of hanging out with a number of our young people for Magnitude (a Christian youth festival). We have had great fun laughing together, getting to know one another and thinking more about God’s call on our lives. It has been great to...
Jul 22, 2021 | Church - We're All In This Together, QPLive
We’ve been looking at some of the New Testament images of church, and today we finish with a glorious picture – the Bride of Christ! Paul tells us in Ephesians 5:32 that marriage, in a great mysterious way, is a shadow of a greater reality – the union of...
Jul 15, 2021 | Church - We're All In This Together, QPLive
I saw a remarkable photograph this week. I think it has gone viral. You may have seen it – an Orangutan holding out a helping hand to a man wading in a snake infested river. The photographer who took the picture said, “At a time when mankind is dying inside humans,...
