You are the salt of the earth (Matthew 5.3) Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven (Matthew 5.16) Looking back on his many years working in hospitals, our Chaplain recalled how just one patient could life the mood of a …
Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now. (John 2.10). Disappointment. Who does not at some time experience this with regard to situations, people, the Church or ourselves? Our expectations constantly exceed reality and there is a …
16th January was the birthday of my grandmother, born when Victoria was still on the throne into a family of Congregationalist lay preachers. Her own grandfather (1818-1881) had spent a lifetime of service in chapels in Berkshire, Yorkshire and Lancashire, before settling in the Polesworth area of North Warwickshire, where he remained, ‘teaching three times …
The wise men from the East were astronomers, scientists and scholars but they did not make an idol of knowledge. They observed, they wondered and they embarked on a personal quest to find the One under whose rule they would commit their lives: For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to …
