Reflections

Reflecting on Easter

Join us in a seven day prayer and reflection journey this Easter week. Tearfund's recently retired Theological Adviser, Dewi Hughes, reflects on some of the things our Saviour did and said during that week.

We can make a change

Christmas is just around the corner. The decorations are beginning to go up, the shops are getting busier. A twinkling reminder that the Christmas cake still needs making, the cards need writing and there’s yet more presents to buy for your ever-growing family!

Flying into a crisis

4 November 2011 - God really does have a sense of humour. I'm a nervous flyer - always have been. Yet I’ve travelled for work for most of my career. And this overseas trip had extra anxiety attached: two local flights on a tiny five-seater plane

The power of the present

17 September 2011 - September’s here again. The whole ‘new school year’ thing inevitably kindles a sensation of time flying by. Summer’s over, the light’s changing, and we’re all boarding the speeding bus to Christmas Land...

Power hungry

According to the Electricity Forum, a website full of fascinating electrical facts: ‘Canadian researchers have found a new way to harvest energy from the human body ...

When new means precisely that

In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.’ (Luke 22:20)

Brought into the light

It was the human capacity for evil that Joseph Conrad explored in his turn-of-the-twentieth century novel, Heart of Darkness.

This little light

‘You are the light of the world… Let your light shine before others.’ (Matthew 5:14, 16)

Learning to lean on God

‘I believe I’m in God’s hands, and my faith is helping me a lot. I’m still alive, my children have been protected, I’m protected. I have to thank God for everything.’