I don’t know about you, but as much as I enjoy the celebrations surrounding Christmas, I’m always glad to get back to normal (whatever that means!). For a start, I think my waistline is grateful and, secondly, I love the optimism that surrounds the embracing of a new year! Maybe you don’t feel very optimistic?…

In and among our busy schedules and activities, let’s make a decision to remain close to the one who is the real reason for our celebration: the Lord Jesus Christ. As I think of pledging myself to spend more time thinking of Him at this time of the year, I can’t help but think of…

I have to admit to finding the episode concerning the recent banning of an advertisement promoting the Lord’s Prayer to be a mixture of puzzling, amusing and more than a little ironic! I’m puzzled that a prayer that has been central to this country’s worship life for so many centuries should now be deemed a…

Today we have a great opportunity to come together and worship the one true and living God! It’s an awesome thought that, in his utter greatness, God wants to impact us with His presence, to make Himself increasingly knowable, and for us to find Him at the centre of every aspect of our lives. Whether…

Church is stronger when it is together. In our world of increasing opportunities to connect, we can still feel that something is missing if we are trying to do it all electronically! Our togetherness has to be demonstrated in our gathering, where we can laugh together, weep together, pray and minister to one another; where…

Today is Remembrance Sunday and, after our time of engaging with God in worship, we will take time to honour those who have given their lives in conflict. It’s certainly good to have ‘special times’ where we allocate our attention and focus on things that are important to us. It’s significant that we remember men…

I hope you’ve had an enjoyable half-term break, if that has applied to you! I must confess it has taken me most of the week to get over the time change from summertime to winter; it always seems a bit of a shock having to embrace night time even before I’ve had my evening meal! In…

I’m excited today because we have the opportunity to be together to worship and praise the one and only saviour: of course we’re talking about our Lord Jesus Christ! It’s interesting that some churches use the language of ‘attending’ worship; an expression I find curious because I have always seen worship as an act of…

I don’t know about you, but I have a tendency to be easily impressed by people who seemingly have it all together: those who have apparently reached the ‘top of their game’ and display the hallmarks of success. Yet, when I look at certain passages of the Bible, I realise that success in worldly terms…

I’m not always the most patriotic, but I think I’ve been impacted a little by the thought of being alive during the reign of the country’s longest reigning monarch, as our queen overtook Victoria during the last week; something to tell the grandchildren you might say! Whether you consider yourself to be a royalist or…