The cross is empty. The body is buried. The tomb is sealed. The voices have fallen silent. Nothing moves. It was silent. Until it wasn’t. Some of the women who followed Jesus arrive at the tomb, ready to properly prepare the body. They expect death, a sealed tomb, a lost friend. But… The silence isContinue reading “Easter 2026: He is alive. He is here.”
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Lent 2026: It is silent. God is not finished.
Holy Saturday. It is finished. Jesus knew. Jesus went. Jesus suffered. Jesus endured. Jesus died. The cross is empty. The body is buried. The tomb is sealed. The voices have fallen silent. Nothing moves. It is silent. Some of us know this feeling. Something we were sure would happen… didn’t. We are left grasping. PromisesContinue reading “Lent 2026: It is silent. God is not finished.”
Lent 2026: He suffers. He stays.
The Good Friday narrative is not easy reading. Betrayed.Bound.Abandoned.Interrogated.Flogged.Humiliated.Whipped.Stripped.Beaten.Burdened. Crucified. It is tempting to rush past it. To move quickly to what comes next. But this is where the story lingers. Jesus suffers. And he stays. Not untouched. Not distant. Not shielded from it. He feels it. All of it.The physical pain.The emotional weight.The humiliation.TheContinue reading “Lent 2026: He suffers. He stays.”
Lent 2026: He knows. He goes.
Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world. He knew. So often we rush past that. We focus on the meal, or the foot washing, or the vigil, or we skip straight to Friday. But before all of that, John tells us something simple and profound: Jesus knew. He couldContinue reading “Lent 2026: He knows. He goes.”
Lent 2026: He knew. He stayed
Somewhere in the middle of Holy Week, a quiet transaction takes place.No crowds. No spectacle. No raised voices. Just a question, a price, and an agreement. And just like that, everything shifts. Tradition calls this Spy Wednesday. The day Judas goes to the chief priests and asks what they will give him if he handsContinue reading “Lent 2026: He knew. He stayed”
Lent 2026: What’s left over
Yesterday, I took a look at Mark’s gospel. Today, I want to sidestep into Matthew. A couple of times in posts this Lent, I’ve been honest about running on empty. About turning up to prayer and being carried by the words of others because I’ve got nothing left. About sitting in the quiet on myContinue reading “Lent 2026: What’s left over”
Lent 2026: He won’t leave it like this
Yesterday, we waved palms. Today, the tone shifts. Holy Week has a rhythm to it, even if we don’t always notice it. After the celebration of Palm Sunday, the Gospels slow things down. They linger in the final days before the cross, drawing our attention to what Jesus does, and what he sees. In theContinue reading “Lent 2026: He won’t leave it like this”
Lent 2026: Not what we expect
Today is Palm Sunday. The beginning of Holy Week. The day Jesus rode into Jerusalem: the long-awaited Messiah, the one people had been hoping for, waiting for, longing for. And He arrived… on a donkey. Not a noble steed. Not surrounded by splendour or ceremony. No polished display of power. Just a borrowed animal, ploddingContinue reading “Lent 2026: Not what we expect”
Lent 2026: Prayer – come as you are
The last couple of posts have been about prayer – the frustrating kind, the empty kind. The kind where words don’t come, or where they come out tangled and sharp-edged. I wanted to say, as much to myself as to anyone else, that this is normal. That struggling with prayer doesn’t mean you’re doing itContinue reading “Lent 2026: Prayer – come as you are”
Lent 2026: Prayer – when words fail
Yesterday I wrote about prayer that feels unheard. The kind that leaves us discouraged, wondering if anything is happening at all. I wrote about perseverance, about trust. If I’m honest, I was writing as much for myself as for anyone else. Today I want to write about another problem I know all too well: prayingContinue reading “Lent 2026: Prayer – when words fail”
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