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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.

  • A few thoughts on Friday’s tragedy

     I don’t expect this to be anything particularly profound but I felt that I had to write something about the recent event that has forever changed New Zealand.

  • Love is greater than happiness

    A pastor I know recounted a story of how he went to a parents meeting at his kid’s school and when the teacher asked the parents what they wanted for their children he and his wife were they only ones who didn’t simply say they wanted them to be happy. It’s not that he and his wife don’t want their kids to be happy but that they want so much more than that for them! A life devoted to mere happiness is a life that is missing something very important.

  • How God turned my loneliness from a burden into a blessing (PSI Best of 2018)

    One movie I really enjoy is “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, I love the idea of a huge family where everyone is really close and there is always food and festivity happening!

  • Why Living Biblically is not actually about living biblically

    There’s a new US sitcom out in New Zealand and as soon as I saw it, I cringed – it’s called ‘Living Biblically’ and follows the main character’s experiment to better his life by obeying every single law in the bible for one year.

  • Men aren’t the problem, people are

    The world isn’t as it should be. You only need to go online or open any newspaper and you’ll see stories about people being victimised; taken advantage of by those in power over them. This is abhorrent and is an aberration of how the world is meant to be.

  • Why Leviticus Excites Me!

    If I said “Think of an exciting book of the bible”, what would you think of? 1 or 2 Kings perhaps? (Lots of exciting stories about David in there!) perhaps Daniel? (The fiery furnace springs to mind as an exciting story!) or perhaps even Revelation? (Stories with dragons are always popular!)

  • Dream Small

    “Good to Great!” “Smarter, Faster, Better!” “How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life!” Self-help books abound telling us how we can become smarter, prettier, more likeable, and generally all around amazing so that we will be able to start business empires, become massively popular, and rich!

  • The Gospel Doesn’t Need Upgrading!

    Throughout our whole lives we seem driven by the desire to increase in knowledge. From the time we are born we start learning and as we get older we move on to more complicated and challenging subjects.

  • My view - Strengths and Weaknesses of The Royal Wedding Sermon (and why they’re important!)

    The Royal Wedding was wonderful to watch and it also provided opportunity for some deep thinking about the sermon by Bishop Michael Curry.

  • The joyfulness of being constrained

    A train on the train tracks, a fish in a pond, a baby in a car seat. What do all these things have in common?