MOVING FORWARD “This time next year we’ll be millionaires.” Who said that? Del boy, the hero of the sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Having grown up in optimistic post-war working-class…

ARE WE WASTING OUR TIME? My parents were quite poor when I was a child and my mother once had not enough money to pay the fuel bill, so she…

ASKING WHY? Tragedy. Responding to tragedy is perhaps the most challenging aspect of being a Christian. How can we declare belief in a loving God in the face of a…

LIVING IN A BAD WORLD So, there I was, having grieved with the Howells and Leonard families over the loss of their special occasion and what would have been a…

QUESTS AND QUESTIONS: FEELING STUCK? I don’t normally go in for alliteration but today I shall. It struck me that there are four basic messages in this story, each beginning…

EPIPHANY MOMENTS: A WHOLE NEW WORLD George Caird: eminent theologian and leading light in the early days of the United Reformed Church, wrote this comment about the extraordinary teaching of…

HE’S GOT THE POWER! This story strikes me as being all about space. Not “outer space,” as in stars and planets, but space as in “my space;” a term we…

EPIPHANY MOMENTS: I’VE GOT THE POWER So: Matthew has been baptised, welcomed into the Christian church and we have asked God to bless and keep him. What happens now? Our…

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,…