Character - Pastor's Pen for 14th August 2022
I must say as the parent of a child mercilessly bullied at a sought after local school by a group of much bigger boys, I found the...
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World Peace and all that - Pastor's Pen for 7th August 2022
Opito Bay panorama 2016 Our national PCANZ moderator Rt. Rev. Hamish Galloway reminds us it is Peace Sunday this week. As I continue to...
Persistence - Pastor's Pen for 31st July 2022
That'll teach me for talking about abundance last week. This week I have an abundance of cold symptoms. I also have an abundance of RAT...
Abundance - Pastor's Pen for 23rd July 2022
Piha panorama It seems funny to be speaking of abundance in a winter that we already want to see the back of, with hospitals at breaking...
Live life well - Pastor's Pen for 17th July 2022
Looking North-West, Wenderholm Regional Park The teacher in the book of Ecclesiastes writes: What do people really get for all their hard...
Through a glass, darkly - Pastor's Pen 10th July 2022
Blurred cityscape from Sulphur Bay, Northcote Point, 4th July 2022 Hoping for a clear view of the city last night on my run, instead I...
The Table - Pastor's Pen for 3rd July 2022
Te Rau Puriri Regional Park with table Amazingly it is July already! How did that happen? I went to my first full 'in person' Presbytery...
Pastor's Pen 26th June 2022 - Midwinter-Matariki
Lorinda Pereira speaking on YouTube shares her Hokianga/Ngā Puhi perspective on Matariki (Puanga): "Matariki to me is a point in time...
The flow of unity - Pastor's Pen for 19th June 2022
Waitangi Waterfall after heavy rain, Omeru Reserve, Highway 16 If you've ever rafted over a waterfall you know there is really not much...
Can these bones live? Pastor's pen for 12th June 2022
Various promptings have led me to meditate on Ezekiel 37: 1-14 which of course is the prophecy in the valley of dry bones. The Lord moves...
God speaks - Pastor's pen for 5th June
Muriwai - land, sea and sky The psalmist declares: The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork....
Heaven's above? - Pastor's pen for 29th May 2022
Having been chewing on the idea for a preaching series on heaven for some time, here goes. It's not fully formed in my head, but I've got...
God's free market - Pastor's pen for 22nd May 2022
I’m sure we can all think of places we have travelled to where the market vendors were enthusiastically happy to promote their wares to...
Confessions of a hypochondriac - Pastor's Pen for 15th May 2022
Having not been sick with anything at all for a number of years it was a bit of a shock to come down with shingles last week, a quite...
For Mother's Day - pastor's pen May 8th 2022
From Webb's Creek Track, Coromandel My brother reports from Napier that my parents often return to stories from France, where we briefly...
Reminders - pastor's pen for 1st May 2022
Having lived something of a charmed life, I've never broken a bone in my fifty plus years. However, I do have a number of visible scars...
Information and the misuse of power - pastor's pen for 24th April 2022
I read an interesting article today about Vladimir Putin and his war in the Business Insider. I quote: "Bad news doesn't filter up in...
The path to Easter - Pastor's pen for 17th April 2022
The walking trails of Waiheke Island are generally well marked, skirting vineyards, utilising berms and ducking into patches of native...
Approaching Easter - Pastor's pen 10th April 2022
As with many things partly dismantled by the Covid season, the approach to Easter this year seems a little hurried, as if the long...
Presence - Pastor's pen for 3rd April 2022
Panorama from Mt. Karangahake Exodus chapter 25 describes in detail God's instruction to Moses as to the construction of a sanctuary, a...