The Exchange Blog

At GLX, we often talk about bringing renewal to our communities. It’s helpful to consider some tools we can use to move and grow together.  One powerful tool we can use to conceptualise some of the frameworks for building the Kingdom of God i...

Join us for a laugh and a moment of rest as Katie and Joy interview our Founding Network Leaders, Stuart and Irene Bell, cooking up a delicious Persian meal. Stuart and Irene founded the Ground Level Network over 40 years ago. They have 3 children...

We need to stop seeing rest as medication to be taken only when we’re worn down. Rest is a part of a balanced spiritual diet, something to be worked into every meal. We can be restful as we work, play, explore, learn and intercede. Re...

In Psalm 131, the psalmist moves swiftly from the image of an intimate moment shared between mother and child to the call for a nation to put its hope in God. They say, “Come. Adopt this stance.” They welcome others into this feeling of safety and...

“I am like a weaned child with its mother;     like a weaned child I am content. (Psalm 131:2) It’s difficult for some nursing infants to rest when they are being held by their mothers because they can smell milk and will start to fret...

For many of us, resting is a skill we need to practice. In Psalm 131, when the Psalmist writes, “I have stilled and quieted my soul,” they help us to understand that rest is not passive. It requires action on our part. The Message translation inte...

It’s easy to pick up burdens God never meant for us to carry. Sometimes, it may even seem holy to be heavy-laden. Yet, in Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus said that all those who come to him will be given rest, an easy yoke and a light burden.  “Come...

Withdrawing from the fierce competition of comparing ourselves to others is partly what enables us to rest. When the psalmist says, “Lord, my heart is meek before you. I don’t consider myself better than others,” (Psalm 131:1 TPT) they rest in hum...

“How did we do it before?” “I could never go back to the way things used to be.” “Why did we think it was normal?” It’s hard to remember those days before it all started, spending more time out of the house than in it. When Covid hit, it impact...

Over the last twelve months, workplaces of all shapes and sizes have had to handle the biggest onslaught of change, uncertainty, lack of connection and instability that we have ever experienced. On a micro level, teams and organisations suffer per...

One of the basic principals of archaeology is that ‘what you see very much depends on the scale you are looking’. If we were to zoom right out and view the entirety of global human history, we would inevitably see grand-scale events such as wars, ...

 “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…” Eph 3:20 If we are going to play a role in the rebuilding of our towns and cities, we need to learn the art of pr...