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#2The Lord’s Prayer: A Lighthouse Reflection
Give us this day our daily bread Each Sunday at Lighthouse, after cries for the kingdom to come, we move to the next line of the prayer...
Jon Swales
Mar 33 min read
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#1 The Lord’s Prayer- A Lighthouse Reflection
Each Sunday at Lighthouse, after a burst of heart-felt, honest, and holy prayer — the kind that comes when people have nothing left to...
Jon Swales
Mar 34 min read
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The Church is not a Museum
The Church Is Not a Museum Churches are not museums of tradition or graveyards of yesteryear. They are not mausoleums filled with the...
Jon Swales
Feb 251 min read
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The Church is not a Business
Churches are not businesses. Now, this doesn’t mean there aren’t budgets to balance, resources to steward, or even that insights from...
Jon Swales
Feb 162 min read
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Climate Breakdown & Cruciform Adaptation: A New Video Teaching Series
'Climate Breakdown and Cruciform Adaptation' is a hard-hitting, prophetic follow-on course to 'Climate Justice: Following Jesus in a World
Jon Swales
Jan 33 min read
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Cruciform Resistance
We are living in the midst of a profound storm, one that is shaking the very foundations of our civilisation. The crises we...
Jon Swales
Dec 27, 20243 min read
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Fools for Christ
The Jesus follower is a cultural outsider—a misfit who doesn’t conform to the world’s expectations. They stand out, swimming against the...
Jon Swales
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Missio Dei/Missio Satanas
We hear it often, whether at the vicar factory, in mission books, or from our leaders: Missio Dei—the mission of God. This phrase...
Jon Swales
Oct 23, 20242 min read
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Theology for Liberation
I’ve got a hunch, maybe even a dream, that we as church leaders need to keep on returning to theology—not just the kind that fills books,...
Jon Swales
Oct 19, 20242 min read
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Crutch- God is Dead
Religion is often dismissed as a crutch—a relic of humanity’s superstitious past, something we invented to make sense of a world we once...
Jon Swales
Oct 15, 20242 min read
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A Meditation on Col 1:19-20
A Meditation on Col 1:19-20 ‘For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all...
Jon Swales
Sep 1, 20243 min read
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Exploring the Depths: What is God like?
In the vast expanse of human history, the question of what God is like has echoed through the ages. It resonates in the melodies of...
Jon Swales
Mar 22, 20243 min read
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Transcends: A Poem
God is not confined to text, ink, paper, or papyrus. The divine transcends words. Not bound by a system, nor limited to a story, the...
Jon Swales
Feb 21, 20241 min read
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Rhetoric of Genocide
Reading scripture, whether corporately or individually, as part of daily prayer or acts of public worship, can often be a challenging...
Jon Swales
Feb 20, 20244 min read
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Prayer: A Theological Reflection
A brief reflection on prayer. Prayer, the holy mystery in which flesh communes with divinity, encompasses moments where we present our...
Jon Swales
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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Deconstruction: Necessary and Painful
Deconstruction can be both necessary and profoundly painful. An existential crisis which touches deep within the human soul and...
Jon Swales
Feb 12, 20242 min read
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Almighty God- The Breasted God
A few (controversial) tentative thoughts which welcomes push back. —- Almighty God. I've repeated these words a million times. Whether...
Jon Swales
Feb 9, 20243 min read
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