The 2000 US presidential election was finally decided after weeks of recounts, court battles and controversy about punch-card ballots. Political pundits and comedians had a heyday. Even after the Florida recount wrangling was over, a billboard along the Michigan highway reminded travellers of those post-election days. It carried this clever message: “Count your blessings. Recount…
A poem by Maureen Brown
I received a parcel in the post the other day which had a typed label and no indication on the wrapper who it was from, I was mystified by it – I hadn’t ordered anything and it wasn’t my birthday. Inside the outer wrapper was another one which also had my name on it but…
Man’s search for meaning : the classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl Rider, 2004 154 pages £7.99 ISBN 978 1 844 132 393 I was moved by this book. Who could ever fail to be moved by such a story ? Part of its power is surely that Viktor Frankl…
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” One of the things my husband and I enjoy doing is walking in the hills and mountains. Unfortunately the weather often conspires against us, hampering the view when we reach the summit. I remember when we were climbing Ben Lomond in 2016.…
No.3 ‘Sight’ I remember as a little girl going on holiday, and the family competition, as to who could see the sea first. The great sense of excitement, as we glimpsed a patch of blue on the horizon, which grew and grew, as we realised the journey was nearly at an end, and the two…
As a preacher, the temptation to use phrases like ‘we all know the story’, or ‘of course it is widely accepted that…’ has to be resisted. Not everyone knows, or has heard, or is on the same wavelength as I happen to be at the moment. Straplines in advertising or colloquial catch phrases take on…
Finding the Path : the search for spiritual reality by Roger Forster new, revised edition, Frameworks, 1991 96 pages ISBN 978 0 851 112 183 Originally written for university and college students, this revised version is a happy combination of evangelism and doughty defence of the Christian faith. Roger Forster, trained at Cambridge in mathematics…
The latest issue of the connexion magazine is out now with the theme of Light of LIfe You can read it by clicking on the image below .
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 31st January 2021. Lectionary Readings: Deuteronomy 18 v15-20. A prophet like Moses. Psalm 111 Praise the Lord for all that he has done. 1 Corinthians 8 v1-13. Honouring God instead of Idols. Mark 1 v21-28 A man with an evil spirit. Wisdom and good sense. The Psalmist…