Civil war

A civil war is a war between citizens of the same country, and you only have to watch the news to realise that the world is at war in many places. It can be frightening when the war is not with a hostile enemy from outside but an enemy within, so to speak.And even...

A May Birthday

Birthdays are important. Our birth celebrates our entrance into this world and our birthdays are public acknowledgement of our progression through life. Some birthdays are deemed more important than others (‘significant’ birthdays like 16, 18, 21, 30, 40,...

Purpose & Destiny

“In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.”...

Children of God

Dave preached from 1 John 3:1-3 this morning (‘probably the favourite of all my favourite scriptures.’) We are, John reminds his readers, ‘born of God’ and thus we are ‘children of God’. This fact of our identity – not a...

DIY?

We are in the midst of serious DIY at home, something (in my opinion) to be avoided at all costs! Some of this chaos was planned (to cut a long story short, the gas people are doing things with pipes and moving our meter as part of this work, which involves upheaval...