West Baptist Church

Isn’t it crazy that most of us are so concerned about how many years we will be left on this earth, when we are not even living sensitively in the time we have now?
-Robert Wicks, Seeds of Sensitivity, 50.
This morning we continued our 7 Sacred Days series with a focus on Dying Well.
Wise and thoughtful [...]

We’re opening tomorrow’s church gathering with this image from my new favourite cartoonist, xkcd.  Thanks, Matt, for the find.

We focused on two images today at our Easter Feast: an open, empty coffin, and this photo from photojournalism site The Big Picture.  It comes from a spread of images of Easter around the world.

This is the caption:
Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Police Chief Victor Amato holds a pet rabbit [...]

“Fear is always with us: that we are not good enough or strong enough, and so will fail; that we will be hurt.  Fear that what we love will be taken from us.  Fear of dying, even fear of God, or of no God.  But God surprises us by giving us strength to bear what [...]

Joyce Rupp is an international treasure.
On Sunday at West we used a short reflection on starting a new year with God, extracted from Joyce Rupp’s ‘The Road of Life’ [forgot to say: it's in a book called May I Have this Dance?, which Tracey owns and can lend].  The piece I read out is here [...]

When Georg Frideric Handel was in the middle of writing the Hallelujah Chorus, one of the most famous pieces of music in the world, he was interrupted by his assistant, who had been banging on his study door for ages, not getting any reply.  Handel looked up, in tears, and said ‘I thought I saw [...]