EPIPHANY MOMENTS: FINDING YOUR PLACE Have you noticed just how many television programmes right now are about re-organising your life? Clear the clutter from your home; re-model your house, change…
ST STEPHEN’S DAY 2021, Do you know, in 37 years of ministry, I have never preached on Boxing Day. There is a good reason for this. Along with most Ministers,…
A NEW HOPE- FOR A BIG DIFFERENCE Do you remember George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm?” A group of animals, who were being neglected and overworked by a horrible farmer, staged…
A NEW HOPE- FOR A RE-NEWED COMMUNITY REFLECTION: BEYOND OUR WILDEST DREAMS We have been thinking a lot recently about bad things that happen in life. And yes, there are…
A NEW HOPE-FOR A NEW FUTURE Late one evening during 1940, Corrie ten Boom, her sister and her father sat around their radio. German invasion of Holland- their nation- was…
GROWING GENEROSITY Why would a woman desperately poor choose to put her last two pennies into the temple offertory boxes? This is the question which has been puzzling me all…
INTO THE UNKNOWN-GROWING LOYALTY The boy stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled.… famous poem by Mrs Hemans about the boy who remains loyal and obedient…
GROWING CONFIDENCE It was Roy Castle, host of the show, Record Breakers, who sang the song, “Dedication’s what you need if you’re going to be a record breaker…” To be…
INTO THE UNKNOWN- YOU TOO? READING: Mark 9, verses 38-40 A very short Gospel reading today but a heavily loaded one. Jesus says that anyone who is not against him…
DO YOU KNOW ME? I never really got the hang of kick-starting a motorbike. I don’t know why- there was nothing wrong with my legs- but when I had only…