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We have recently been “entertained” by the in and outs of politicians, so many U-turns we might well be feeling dizzy. In the time elapsed between writing this and it being published who knows who our prime minister will be, let alone the other members of the cabinet, or even if we still have the…
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C 6th November 2022 Lectionary Readings: Job 19 v23-27a; Psalm 17 v1-9; 2 Thessalonians 2 v1-5, 13-17; Luke 20 v27-38. Life in the Kingdom of God. The Sadducees did not believe that people would rise to life after death. So some of them came to Jesus and said…(Luke…
I talk back to the devil : straightforward appeals for Christ-like living by AW Tozer Authentic, 2009 134 pages £9 ISBN 978 1 850 781 486 Converted at the age of 17, Aiden Tozer had no formal training in a Bible college or seminary but was entirely self taught. Indeed, he didn’t even have a high…
Rev Saul and his wife Tariro have arrived in the UK 🙂
For several years, The Great North Run was a big event in our family, and we made an annual pilgrimage during September to support family members and friends from Church as they made their way from Newcastle Upon Tyne out to South Shields. Not that I have ever even contemplating taking part, anybody who has…
The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 34 v 11.Come, my children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord We will not get far in our relationship with God unless we understand that He is to be feared. In the Chronicles of Narnia, an allegory by C.S.Lewis, two girls, Susan and Lucy,…
As we walked (car out of action!) across the Morrison’s (other supermarkets are available but not so close to home!) car park, me pulling a trolley bag containing the heavier items and him with a full shopping bag, he suddenly stopped, pulled out a second bag and shared the groceries between the bags. With one…
The original television series, ‘What The Papers Say’, is older than me. It ran from 1956-2008, faltered, ran again on radio and finally petered out in 2016. The newspapers, printed originally but now often ‘consumed’ digitally, have been part of life for a very long time. Facts and Comment inform thinking, drive agendas and entertain.…
“One word of Truth…” is the title of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s acceptance speech when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The title is part of a Russian proverb which says ‘One word of truth outweighs the whole world’. In the news very recently, you will almost certainly have heard or read that…