The Church is not just local and global but also spiritual and physical and meeting Jesus with others can be so enriching – spiritually and physically. Jesus always makes a difference each day!

In following Jesus, the Church wants to serve her neighbours – whether they're in eyesight or on the other side of the world. Working out how to serve takes wisdom and effort.

Mothers, Lent, and Jesus all combined – a story often unknown – and one which doesn't stop us from honouring our own Mum!

It is easy to be cynical about service. Whose agenda is being met? Only God in Jesus Christ offers and delivers true service.

The world understands 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' and that so many of our relationships are transactional – particularly in religion. Until we come to Christianity and Jesus that is! Then it is gift upon gift!

But Jesus has rescued us so that we can live in him and that life is better than anything we could have done on our own!

We have so many experiences and encounter many points of view that it is important to understand why we have the perspective we have. For Christians, the answer is seen in Jesus and who is and what he has done for us.

Christianity is more than ethics - how we behave - and Jesus is more than a teacher which is why following Jesus is really about relationships when you consider the cross.

Jesus breaks the stereotype of God – look at the cross – so that people may live. Jesus' followers break the stereotype of discipleship with laughter rather than asceticism – because a full life with Jesus involves everyone around his followers having the best time possible as defined by Jesus rather than the world.

Words are so powerful and none more so than the Word made flesh.