The problem was I just could not stay upright.  Down I went again, my walking trousers becoming covered in sticky brown mud.  The ground had turned in a matter of moments from a dusty path into a brown ice rink.  The rain had come down like sheets suddenly and with only minimal warning, in a…

As a child I loved badges.  Even as a young adult, they were important to me.  For several years I would wear them regularly and even had some colourful braces to attach them to.  At one stage I had a mug in my desk drawer with a large assortment of my badges.  Then of course…

Yesterday I was tidying the top drawer of my desk, its one which I do not very often touch.  It has those things like sunglasses, stapler, bookmarks, fans, staples in it, and at the back forgotten, it has a few other random items as well.  In a money bag I had carefully kept a few…

This thought was first published in March 2022 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…

One of the most interesting parts of the Olympics for me is that occasionally I will accidentally start to watch a sport which I was not planning on viewing and know nothing about and discover it fascinating.  This happened to me today when I put on the television after lunch and there was the men’s…

“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’.…