Tagged with John

At home

At home

Live in me.  Make your home in me just as I do in you.  In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless you are joined with me. Yes, I’m back in John 15:4 again.  Busyness and tiredness often … Continue reading »

In returning and rest

I’ve just recently started writing for an online magazine called Provoketive, which is based in the U.S.  It’s exciting to be published by someone else other than me(!) and what I’m writing for that site will go to a far wider – and different – audience than I have here.  But, because what I plan … Continue reading »

I am the one Jesus loves

I have loved the simplicity of these words from Brennan Manning in Abba’s Child this week: I believe that the night in the Upper Room was the defining moment of John’s life.  Some sixty years after Christ’s resurrection, the apostle – like an old gold miner panning the stream of his memories – recalled all … Continue reading »