This thought was first published in June 2020 As we watch our tv screens, read newspapers, listen to radios follow our social media feeds the world can feel anything but peaceful. This can cause us deep unease at times – even as Christians. However when all around us feels like absolute chaos we can depend…

This thought was first published in June 2020 As we watch our tv screens, read newspapers, listen to radios follow our social media feeds the world can feel anything but peaceful. This can cause us deep unease at times – even as Christians. However, when all around us feels like absolute chaos we can depend…

I have told you before about the demise of our walnut tree. As I look out of my dining room door into the evening dusk I can see the lone daffodil that has sprung up behind where the tree used to be.  This gives me hope that there is always new life to be found…

In one of my previous musings I have mentioned Mabel, the owl who lives in Christchurch Park.(Although it might actually be Mabel’s offspring, Matilda now). Recently on one of my runs I couldn’t see her in her usual hole in the tree. It took me a while but then I eventually spotted her on one…

A sad thing happened this week and as I look out into my garden, I feel bereft. Our walnut tree which has been there since we moved here 28 years ago (and a lot longer) had to be removed. It had developed a sickness which meant if left it could have been unstable. As I…

On the day that covid vaccines began arriving in the UK my wife, Dawn, saw a newspaper headline which said ‘The day that hope arrived’ and had a picture of a lorry disembarking from a ferry – presumably carrying vials of vaccine.  Dawn subsequently used this in an on-line talk  and pointed out that in…

Maybe like me you have that sinking feeling of ” here we go again”.  To encourage you I would like to share what was on my desktop calendar for today :- Good news for today: God is still in charge and in control! He is beside you, behind you, before you, and for you! No…

On Sunday I was preaching on Ephesians3:1-6. For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles-Surely you have heard about the administration of God’s grace that was given to me for you, that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly. In reading this, then, you will…

My wife and I have recently been able to visit our grand son ( and his parents!) in Liverpool. We are so grateful we were able to as recent restrictions ,and todays announcement of more stringent ones, mean we don’t know when we will see them in the flesh again.  But God has reminded me…

We have been doing a Bible read through at the church I attend and earlier this week reached Lamentations. I must say some of it has seemed quite hard work and Lamentations has been no exception. It seems like an awful lot of grief and misery ! However in the middle of chapter 3 are…