Poetic Licence

Hands up those who are over the commercialism and craziness of the build up to Christmas! I am looking forward to my home town of Blenheim in a couple of days, where there will be less humidity, less traffic, I am so looking to forward to being able to stop and reflect on the true […]

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Imagine you are at work, whether it be in your office, road-marking, fixing someones plumbing, driving your tractor in the field, in the kitchen making a cup of tea, and a humongous angel appears to you and the Glory of the Lord shines around you, would you be a bit taken back, terrified, say Whoa […]

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Hi All Advent is upon us, It is all too easy for the Birth of Christ to be passed by in the midst of  getting wrapped up in all the other things which seem to happen throughout December, it should not be about presents, rather God’s presence on earth through the birth of his Son, […]

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  As Christmas nears, and I ponder billboards proclaiming there is no God on buses, and St Matthew’s in the City billboard and the rapid abyss into full scale secularism in New Zealand, I turn back to the message found in Isaiah 9. Unto us a child is born, a son is given – Emmanuel […]

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It is all so easy to quickly read the account of the Birth of Christ in Luke 2. It is good to try and place ourselves in the story and wonder how the various characters felt, Joseph and Mary, The Shepherds, The Angels, The Wise Men, The Angels. Each of them must have experienced different […]

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Hi The Shepherds were out in their fields by night and suddenly an Angel appears, the Glory of God shines around them. What were they feeling, Luke puts it in perspective for us “They were terrified”  I think I would have been too! One of the themes of Luke is the upside-down nature of the […]

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Hi All as Advent begins I am going to do a series on Luke 2 which is the gospel that has the most information on the birth and early life of Jesus – here is the first one   Luke 2 vs. 1-7 The Birth of Jesus In Bethlehem   In those days Caesar Augustus issued […]

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In this age of consumerism “keeping up with the Jones’es” and the advertising which exhorts parents to spend $100’s on their loved ones it is too easy to lose sight of the reason for the season. Indeed many people have no understanding of what Christmas is really about.  The following poem reflects on this topic […]

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