“Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”“Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me,for whoever is not against us is for…

This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon the father of Boaz, Boaz the father of Obed, Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David.…

This thought was first published in November 2020 Today I nearly cried.  A television programme took my breath away.  It is rare for any programme to make be even consider becoming tearful; even ‘War Horse’ did not make me cry, (well not much). Probably if I had not walked past the DIY shop, I would…

There are times when to relax and to turn off from the busyness of life I take to watching ‘rubbish’ television, the type of thing which does not tax my mind too much.  I have been watching a series called ‘Go Hard or go Home’ and while the image on the promotion for the series…

Recently at our Harvest Festival service Jo Jacobs used a passage from 1 Corinthians chapter 3 ‘What after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe – as the Lord has assigned to each his task.  I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow’.…

As part of a management course today we were given an exercise to do, initially alone and then to discuss as a small group, we were told to imagine we had £2.5 Million which we could only spend on ourselves.  We later had an equal sum we could only spend on others; it was all…

Our house has lots of clocks, I love the way that they tick and chime, each having their own unique sound.  however often the time is different depending on the room, or the day of the week, and it adds a lack of certainty around the time.  However, not everyone appreciates the clocks chiming, especially…

Bury St Edmunds is a town which I have rarely visited over the years, which does feel odd considering I have lived in Suffolk for so long.  Often, I have been told what a lovely place it is, what good shops there are there, and of course how amazing the cathedral is and the Abbey…

I have just completed a jigsaw puzzle, not the amazing type with hundreds of pieces, or of a beautiful scene nor a picture from the past with an old stream train or cars going through it.  No, not even one of those fiendishly difficult puzzles of a plate of baked beans, or spaghetti with every…

When the ground was covered in snow and we were unsure about venturing out in case we slipped over and checked the freezer to establish how long we could leave it before a shopping trip I was reminded of a book we read to our children when they were little, it was called ‘Kipper’s snowy…