by Gillian Gilchrist | Jun 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
It is dark; inky, jet-black. I wave my hand in front of my face, the air moves but I can’t see a hint of my fingers. Once my eyes adjust, I can just make out the door of the tent. I crawl over, hunt for the zipper and peel it open. A short stumble and I am out in the...
by Gillian Gilchrist | Jun 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
We’ve been studying Hosea at church this month, and it’s not a book that I read very often. Actually, it’s not familiar at all, so on re-reading, I was struck by almost everything. This is how God feels towards his people. He pursues them passionately. He longs for...
by Rod Thompson | May 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the biblical text of Hosea, we read the following words in Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites, because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land; “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgement of God in the land”. Here...
by farhan | May 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace” has topped the pop charts in several countries on multiple occasions, most recently when the film by that name was released in 2007. Newton’s biographer Jonathan Aitken estimates that it is performed at least 10 million times...
