Read: Acts 10:34-48 In the garden outside our dining room window, we have a completely random and uncontrolled mixture of spring bulbs. Over the years, they have been added to indiscriminately as things turn up, usually as gifts. Most recently, a kind friend gave me five tulip bulbs with the comment, ‘I have no idea…

After we have changed the clocks at the end of March, I start looking forward to the light summer evenings and always hope to make the most of them while they last. Sometimes I do nothing more than water the garden and dead head a few plants, but it is so lovely to be outside…

PSALM 119 verse 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light on my path. I was reminded of this verse after I had read a daily Prayer Guide from Open Doors. A man in Yemen is preparing for capture by the authorities by memorising scripture. He said, “I want to be…

Frederick Banting and Charles Best are credited with discovering insulin following experiments of removing the pancreas from dogs and then reinjecting the extracts. Leonard Thompson was 14 in 1922 when he was given the first ever injection of insulin. He had type 1 diabetes, weighed only 65lbs, slipping in and out of a diabetic coma…

From the outset, I will apologise for starting what I hope is a bright and sunny Sunday morning with morbid thoughts, but just recently I have seen a string of adverts on the television for simple cremations and if I’m being honest they irritate me. When I first started working in the full time ministry,…

Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by David Cross www.ellel.uk But now, look. It has been forty-five years since the LORD said that (word) to Moses. That was when Israel was going through the desert, and the LORD, as he promised, has kept me (Caleb) alive ever since. Look at me! I…