Grumpiness and Gratitude
Are you Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful? What’s your attitude? Do you grumble and moan, or let it be known, You’re grateful for all God’s done for you? Which...
21
Aug
Staff Reflections
21
Aug
Staff Note – Lucy Collingwood: Remembrance
Lucy Collingwood has recently been appointed as Venn's Hospitality and Events Coordinator. She is an alumna of the Residential Fellowship (2018/19) and has worked in...
21
Aug
Understanding Ordinary Time
This piece on Ordinary Time was first published in Venn’s print publication The Common, Winter 2019. We are republishing it here to help us understand...
26
Jun
Venn Radio: Programme Nine
In this month's Venn Radio, Sam and Julia explore more of the ideas that emerged in the last edition of Common Ground, curated around the...
19
Jun
Staff Note – Michelle Young: Christ in Revelation
Each June I revisit the image of the Church gathered around Christ in Revelation 1-3. I do this as I prepare to teach our Residential...
19
Jun
Monthly Practice: The Grace of Sunday Morning
I grew up in a pentecostal church in Palmerston North. This was both similar and dissimilar to what people might imagine when they hear the...
29
May
Look, Pray: On the Ascension
“I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days...
29
May
Staff Note – Katrina Belcher: How Deep the Father’s Love
Every night when we pray together as a family, my husband Richie and I pray that our children will know how much we love them...
29
May
Poetry: Pentecost, a Pentecost Offering
Melody Cooper, John Dennison, and Donald Goodhall have collaborated to produce a three-part Pentecost offering. Here, John has written and recorded a poem on Pentecost....
29
May
Pentecost: A Season of Renewal and Hope
We are entering the season of Pentecost, a season in which the church recalls and celebrates the pouring out of the Holy Spirit following Jesus’s...