2 Kings : The Power and the Fury by Dale Ralph Davis. Christian Focus, 2005(Focus on the Bible) 363 pages £9 ISBN 978 1 845 500 962 Dale Ralph Davis has written a first class commentary on the book of 2 Kings. His background as an academic (prof of Old Testament) as well as a…
As a child I was a great admirer of the Royal family and used to enjoy cutting out pictures of royal occasions from newspapers and pasting them into scrapbooks. In 1961 the Duke of Kent, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, married Katherine Worsley in York Minster and their wedding photo was duly added to my scrapbook. Their decision…
This week – Our 10 minute service reflects on Micah 6:8
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Listening to a Bite-Sized Church episode recently, this question was mentioned and reminded me of an incident from many years ago. Working as a part-time administrator in a Residential Home, I was privileged to assist residents in various ways. One lady, whose husband worked for the same Bank as I did, enabled us to have…
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 14th September 2025 Lectionary Readings: Exodus 32 v7-14; Psalm 51 v1-10; 1 Timothy 1 v12-17; Luke 15 v1-10. RSVP Luke tells of a time when Jesus was surrounded by a crowd made up of ‘tax collectors and sinners’ and ‘Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses’.…
My last thought was a fourth one based in the world of bags and containers and I fully expected it to be the last of a short series. You may recall that we were thinking about leather wineskins and a saying of Jesus: “And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine…
Over the last few weeks our Hobbies Group at FMC at Trinity has been using the church instead of the hall to meet in. It’s been interesting to see how many people come in when the door is open. I’ve welcomed one German man, a family of five from Austria and on Monday a man…
I tried to compile a list of memorable events that happened in this month and weave them into an acrostic poem. Here is the result: Silent breezes stir the cooling air, Early autumn whispers everywhere. Pilgrims set sail, their journey begun, Two towers fell, beneath September’s sun. Einstein revealed E=mc² in a September, Martin’s March…
Read: Revelation 3:1-6 By the time this is published I will have retired from fulltime work. I will be carrying on part time for a while but only on a very limited basis. I have dug out my old diary from 1981 and as far as I can see I left college on 3rd July,…