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Jessica McPherson

Press Service International

Jessica McPherson lives with her best friend and husband, Eoin and their family of rescue animals in Christchurch. She loves reading, writing, photography and scrap-booking but most of all sharing God’s love and truth with a hurting world. Jessica is particularly passionate about encouraging children and building them up in gospel truth.

  • Why Everything Changing Is Actually Normal

    The word of the year for 2020 (excluding names of things) will surely be ‘unprecedented’ and in one way this would be a very accurate representation of 2020. Things are very different from normal.  

  • The Key to a Marriage that Lasts: Burn the Ships!

    Marriage is a wonderful gift from God but as with all the best things in life it is not always easy. Marriage is a beautiful picture of the love that Christ has for his church but since it also involves two imperfect human beings marriages often run into trouble and can sadly end in divorce.

  • The Love We Should Be Celebrating

    Valentine’s day is a fun time to celebrate the special person in your life but my favourite love based holiday actually comes later in the year, the holiday that is actually most dedicated to celebrating love is Easter.

  • What Cats Teach Us About God and Holiness

    There are many great things about cats. They’re uncannily adorable, their fur is delightfully soft, they’re hilarious comedians, I could go on!

  • That’s Not My Nativity Scene – It has a Dragon In It!

     We’re coming up to Christmas which is my favourite time of the year! As soon as December 1st comes round, my hubby and I pull out all our Christmas stuff which we haven’t seen for ten months and set about decorating the house and tree.

  • The Blessings Of A Church Family

    One of the best and most important things we get to do as Christians is to be part of a church family. God’s design for the church family is the same as his design for the families we grow up in – a warm loving community in which we are loved, taught, supported, and corrected.

  • How ‘Treat Yo Self’ Culture Is Making Us Sadder

    I remember when I was little and I was given a pearl necklace (with very small pearls but nonetheless very impressive to myself as a young girl).

  • If you’re not comforted by Revelation you’re reading it wrong

    Until I came to university I used to think that Revelation was equal parts scary and confusing but at least it was at the end of the Bible so you could somewhat avoid it for the most part.

  • Why being holier than others should lead to increased humility

    We have recently been doing a series on Holiness at our church and I wanted to share some of the encouraging and practical things I have learnt through it, I hope it is of as much encouragement and spurring on to you as it has been to me.

  • The Marks of a Godly Preacher

    I have been greatly blessed by the pastors at our church, I didn’t intentionally choose such a good church but by God’s grace I found myself in a church community that has made a deep and profound difference to my Christian life.