Harvest : Everyday
There is that annual service where we celebrate the harvest from each year. In the past, we might have had a few weeks off school to go out into the...
Trips to the other side
Imagine the time when the Roman Empire was everywhere - it ruled with a rod of iron. They were the other side. Our lives would have been heavily constrained, one...
Where is the barrier today?
The Sunday coming up is Conference Sunday, the day that Conference seeks to ordain those who they have discerned a calling to ministry. This year the Conference will vote upon...
The obvious issue
I am struck by how many people use the Internet to communicate with others but we possibly don't understand how it works. That ability to really communicate, get the message...
Voldemort – don’t speak of it
He who shall not be named In the Harry Potter series of films, books etc there was one character whose name was not to the spoken : Voldemort. It was...
Childhood Hobbies
Mandy says that as a child she never mastered knitting or even had any interest in it. Now, it is very different. Do we have childhood hobbies that remain with...
Welcome the dove
According to many, a multitude of doves is known as a dole, dole or flight. As we come to Pentecost - fifty days, 7 weeks, the 7th Sunday after the...
Reflective prayer – but when & where?
In our series of prayer explorations we have looked at how Jesus taught us how to pray; how we can find many opportunities to pray throughout the day (and night)...
Do we have any fish?
On our post-Resurrection journey, last week we considered John's account of Jesus meeting with the doubt-ridden disciples in a locked room. Here in Luke's account describes an extra journey, that...
Have we misinterpreted Judas’ betrayal?
Introduction Judas is traditionally equated with the demonic, but may we see Judas afresh as in the ballad below? Whereas some authors may write his name it is often replaced...
How can you wash from six feet away?
When it was common place for travellers to be welcomed to each others homes - chance would be a fine thing today - it would be the hospitable thing to...
For God so loved…are we comfortable?
Ah familiar territory here...John 3:16 and all that. For God so loved...are we comfortable? What's been happening? From a blog teaching about Nicodemus Our NT passage this week is John...