Encounters with Jesus – Sunday

Encounters with Jesus – Sunday

Go Out and Train Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20 (The Message)                                                         Meanwhile, the eleven disciples were on their way to Galilee, headed for the mountain Jesus had set for their reunion. The moment they saw him they...
Encounters with Jesus – Saturday

Encounters with Jesus – Saturday

You are the Messiah Scripture: John 11:17-28 (The Message) When Jesus finally got there, he found Lazarus already four days dead. Bethany was near Jerusalem, only a couple of miles away, and many of the Jews were visiting Martha and Mary, sympathizing with them over...
Encounters with Jesus – Friday

Encounters with Jesus – Friday

The Best Christian Scripture: Mark 10:35-45 (The Message) James and John, Zebedee’s sons, came up to him. “Teacher, we have something we want you to do for us.”  “What is it? I’ll see what I can do.”  “Arrange it,” they said, “so that we will be awarded the highest...
Encounters with Jesus – Thursday

Encounters with Jesus – Thursday

A Risk of Faith Scripture: Mark 5:24-34 (The Message)  A woman who had suffered a condition of haemorrhaging for twelve years—a long succession of physicians had treated her, and treated her badly, taking all her money and leaving her worse off than before—had heard...
Encounters with Jesus – Wednesday

Encounters with Jesus – Wednesday

Let them come to Me Scripture: Mark 10:13-16 (The Message) The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: “Don’t push these children away. Don’t ever get between them and me....
Encounters with Jesus – Tuesday

Encounters with Jesus – Tuesday

Only one thing is essential Scripture: Luke 10:38-42 (The Message) As they continued their travel, Jesus entered a village. A woman by the name of Martha welcomed him and made him feel quite at home. She had a sister, Mary, who sat before the Master, hanging on every...
Encounters with Jesus – Monday

Encounters with Jesus – Monday

Reflections for the week of Vision and Prayer 2026: As the title for our week of Vision and Prayer suggests, this year we will be looking at ‘Encounters with Jesus’ as our focus. Every day we will put ourselves in a scripture where people in the Bible encountered...
Come Follow Me

Come Follow Me

Jesus said to his disciples – Come follow me I wonder what went through the disciples minds as Jesus said this to them? What does he mean? Are we going for a walk round the lake? Or was it something more that he had in mind? But what did he mean? Little did they...
Samson’s strength

Samson’s strength

As a youngster, I was always a bit fascinated with Samson (maybe growing up with ‘Gladiators’ on TV fed into that). The supernatural strength and spectacular death alongside the ability to confound people with riddles and yet I couldn’t read the story without...
Stories that stick

Stories that stick

Post Sorell was the small village where my family lived in Tasmania. The river  was at the back & the sandy ocean beach to the side. The church we went to  was a large wooden building with Sunday School at 2 pm-3pm. The teachers came from the town 12 miles away,...