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Truth

The truth of God is a wonderful asset to a Christian. Joni Tada likened the value of God’s truth to an experience in her childhood. She wrote, “At four, I was too young to have my own horse, and I’m not sure a horse fit for a four-year-old could have kept up with my father…

Self-Imprisonment

I am writing this immediately following the return to the UK of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori following their detention in Iran. Most of us will have no idea how it feels to be held without reason and without any idea when or if release will come. Similarly, ordinary people condemn such dreadful treatment of…

SPRING

 While I was washing up the other morning and looking out of the kitchen window, I was watching the birds eating me out of house and home with the seeds on the bird table.  What a wonderful sight – there were sparrows and our faithful robin and his wife (I think!) and the blackbird and…

If you want to grow…

Acts 17:11 They searched the Scriptures daily to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth. Enjoying a meal recently, as one of a party of five, two of us were bemoaning the constant repetition of some of the modern Christian songs and I apologised to a younger member of the party because she may…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 3rd April 2022

Fifth Sunday in Lent.                                   Year C                                               3rd April 2022 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 43 v16-21;   Psalm 126;   Philippians 3 v4b-14;   John 12 v1-8. An outpouring of love. The gospel passage today tells us of an incident at the house of Lazarus, Mary and Martha in the village of Bethany, not far from the city of…