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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.

  • 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 ...

  • 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). I understood that pearls were something fancy, elegant, and special.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.