WEEK 4 This series of “Thoughts for the Day” is inspired by the study series, NOTORIOUS, written by Jeff Lucas. He and Pastor Brent discuss 9 different characters from the Bible who we would possibly call rogues, scoundrels or scallywags. Each one however can teach us something of our faith. SAUL the PERSECUTOR – Saul…

On two separate occasions I have forked out good money to ride to the top of Snowdon in one of their trusty little trains and both occasions have been memorable and one day I would love to repeat the experience. I have been enticed into making this journey each time with pictures like the one…

There is a plethora of faiths around the world today – political, economic, social and, of course, religious. We are familiar with the many religions practised in our time – the well-known ones like Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, Confucianism, atheism, Satanism, Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses and many others not so well known. Of the…

“The book “In His Steps” may have earned less money for its author than any other bestseller in history. Charles M. Sheldon wrote it in 1896, and it was first published by a religious weekly magazine. The magazine’s publisher failed to meet copyright regulations, so Sheldon lost legal ownership of the book. Scores of publishers…

We have woken up to the reality of the damage the human population is doing to the environment. Carrying capacity is the limit to the size of population that the planet can sustain; the more the population demands from the environment the smaller the population the environment can support but the population grows anyway. All…

One weekly challenge is ‘Only Connect’ on a Monday night. It consists of two teams with Victoria Coren Mitchell in the chair. It’s a daft game really. You have to connect four clues and discover what the link is. We rarely ‘get it’, and often the contestants are as much in the dark as we…