Read 1 Samuel 8:10-22 and pause to ask yourself how much mental energy you have expended on grumbling about leadership during your life. If you are anything like me it will be a significant amount. Being in a leadership role can be a thankless task. At National and International level moods change and today’s popular…

Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Rev Claire Jones www.christianaid.org.uk Something to read The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance. – 2 Peter 3:9. Something to think about The…

In the TFTD on 27 November 2024, one question asked was, “Which verses in scripture do you find mind-blowing?” I found that to be a very interesting challenge. The first phrase to come to mind was from Genesis chapter 1 verse 16: “He also made the stars.” During the Great Storm of 1987, we were…

When I was a young child, I would often lay awake at night and my imagination would run wild. My parents were trying to be helpful by leaving the landing light on so that my sister and I would not be afraid. However, the long shadows that this threw across our bedroom doorway only served…

‘O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie’, the first line of what I regard as one of my most favourite of carols.  It reminds me very much of the village I grew up in, in mid-Wales called Llanfyllin. On each Christmas eve, my family and I would walk down to church…