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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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One Foot in Eden
One foot in Eden, where light spills soft through the branches, and the river sings a song without sorrow. Here, the air is thick with...
Jon Swales
Mar 31 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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A Canticle for a Burning World
Blessed be the One, wild and holy, whose breath stirs the void, whose voice hums in all things, whose light flickers in the deep. Blessed...
Jon Swales
Feb 252 min read
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The Dream
Night spills across the earth like oil, thick with the hush of waiting. I slip between waking and the deep unseen, where time is...
Jon Swales
Feb 163 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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The Pastor's Dream: Lazarus
“We may possess and may practice a dogmatics, an ethics, and a proper worldview such as the given tradition requires but still leave...
Jon Swales
Feb 142 min read
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The Harrowing of Hell
Today, the Lighthouse team continued their book study of ‘The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross.’ After discussing...
Jon Swales
Feb 41 min read
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A Psalm for a Secular Age
Give thanks for the longing within, for the hunger that will not be silenced. Speak of the beauty that lingers still, of the mystery that...
Jon Swales
Feb 41 min read
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The River I Step In Is Not the River I Stand In
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man." —Heraclitus The River I Step In Is...
Jon Swales
Feb 41 min read
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Bats or Newts? A Lament
“Bats or great crested newts?” “Neither, because I want growth, ” - Rachel Reeves, Times Interview, Quick Fire Questions ‘Bats or Great...
Jon Swales
Jan 281 min read
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Fragility-A Dialogue with Psalm 46
There is a trembling beneath all things, a quiet undoing woven into the fabric of being. The earth shifts, waters rise, and I too am...
Jon Swales
Jan 251 min read
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As the Deer: For a Secular Age
There is a thirst— a restless, raging thirst we cannot name, a yearning without object, a hunger beyond the reach of reason, a void...
Jon Swales
Jan 252 min read
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Drill, Baby, Drill!
Drill, baby, drill— strange words, a chant from a strange man in a strange world. Forests burn, their ancient voices smothered in smoke....
Jon Swales
Jan 221 min read
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Soup, Soap & Salvation
Step beyond the comforts of romanticised religion, beyond a hope too soft, too distant. Move towards the wounded, the image-bearers in...
Jon Swales
Jan 212 min read
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Find Your Own Calcutta
You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see”- Mother Teresa Find your own Calcutta— a descent, an incarnation...
Jon Swales
Jan 151 min read
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Hope: Peering through a Veil
Hope is not a calculation, not a tally of gains or losses, but the ache of a heart stretched toward the horizon, a whisper of...
Jon Swales
Jan 131 min read
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Go Forth without Fear
Do not be afraid. Bid farewell to fear. There is no shadow so deep that love cannot reach it, no sin so vast it could exhaust the...
Jon Swales
Jan 101 min read
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Hope Leans Forward
Hope leans forward, tender, listening to the whispers of creation groaning for renewal. It does not turn its face from shadows but gazes...
Jon Swales
Jan 101 min read
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