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Holiness is designed to be lived out in the mess of normal relationships, not least our lives at home.

What did priests do? What does it mean to be a priest for our families, our friends and colleagues?

What did God choose us to do? What does it mean to be a faithful presence in situations that are difficult?

Peter paints a rich picture of all that God has done for us, so that we can live consistently in all our different situations in life. We are born again to live again…

Paul’s extended reflection on why love is so central to the life of a church gives us a sense of what the church can offer a divided world. We can be part of the answer, rather than adding to the problem.

How do we care for one another so that all our weaknesses are covered?

The early church had to navigate all the challenges of being small communities who came from different backgrounds. What were these differences and how did they manage the tensions and turn them to strengths?

The earliest Christians demonstrated their unity when they ate meals together. It would have been shocking to those who watched on. The meal that carried the memory of Jesus’ last meal was the most powerful of all.

Prayer shapes our character and in times of crisis, we reveal who we really are. As Jesus hung in agony on a Roman cross, unjustly brutalised, facing certain death, his prayers revealed who he was and defied the expectations of everyone. How might our prayer life shape us to do the same?

In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus enacted a part of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’, ‘Your will be done’, and he did it alone. How can we learn to pray, trusting in God, when things are not as we would hope and we feel we are facing them alone?

In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples to be protected from the evil one, to be full of joy, to be sanctified and to be unified. Could he still be praying those things for us now and how might we part of the answer?

John 17 is the most revealing of all prayers: it’s a window into the intimacy shared between Jesus and his Father before the creation of the world…