I woke this morning with thoughts in my head.

Silent Saturday.

The day in-between.

We don’t know much about Perpetua.

We do know she lived around the turn of the 3rd century AD.

That she lived in Carthage – modern day Tunis, in Tunisia.

Small groups this week have looked at the rag-tag bunch of people Jesus called to be his first disciples…

…the new family of people that God was at work creating through Jesus.

And what a family it was!

We’re all wired differently – I get that.

What makes one person tick is different to what makes another person tick.

So a little insight into how I’m wired…the kind of things that I love to think about…

Last Sunday I had the joy of teaching on the subject of ‘Christ is our LIFE’.

And if I’m honest… I find that statement quite a nebulous one… it doesn’t immediately connect or help me directly… so, for me, it begs the question.

What does that REALLY mean?

At Neighbourhood we try not to use fancy terms just for the sake of it. But this one I find really helpful.

Homo incurvatus in se.

Or, humanity curved in on itself.

Yesterday we shared the bread and the juice together…

…responding to Jesus’ invitation to come –

to come to His table.

Last Sunday we celebrated baptism.

Two people, who in different ways and with different stories have discovered the Treasure that is Jesus.

(Or maybe it’s the Treasure that has discovered them).

Last night we had small group.

And we finished with lectio -

or at least our version of it!

I love the dynamic of God speaking through His Spirit,

Yesterday, Lent began.

An invitation to join with Christians around the world and throughout church history, and make the six-week journey again towards the cross…