Having got the Election, the Euro’s and Wimbledon out of the way, we now have the Olympics and for the next fortnight the news, the papers, and the television schedules will be dominated by the games and whether this is just the sort of news we have been looking forward to, or we are irritated…

I have some pansies in my garden and they are one of my favourite flowers. I remember growing them as a child and I suppose I’ve never really stopped. I particularly love purple ones. When I look at the centres of them, I immediately think of angels with their wings outspread and if there’s a…

It’s an odd time of year – I feel caught between endings and beginnings. School’s ended, ministers are leaving, clubs are in recess. Things seem to be in limbo before everything fires into action again in September. Time to stand back, review, take a breath. ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’  Psalm 46:10…

A colleague from a different country across the ocean told me recently that he could not understand the British obsession with the weather until he started working here regularly. The grey summers and the need to switch from T-shirt to overcoat are confusing to someone used to consistently hot temperatures without variation. Similarly, here we…

Today’s thought for the day is brought to us Charlotte Haines Lyon. www.christianaid.org.uk Something to read First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings should be made for everyone, for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness…

One Saturday, several years ago, my wife and I were confronted with what, at the time, we considered devastating news. The following day, we attended the usual church services “putting on a brave face” The evening service was a special occasion that was preceded by a prayer meeting for the few who attended. My thoughts…

In our Bible Study group recently we were discussing how the Psalms help us to experience God “as close as touch, yet simultaneously so far away as one might wonder if he existed at all.” Steve Chalke, who is a prominent Christian commentator, and is often speaking on the radio, spoke about Mother Theresa’s experience…