Both work and play

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” the saying goes. I’m sure dullness is not a characteristic of church members at Goldthorpe! – and we certainly know how to both work and play as we proved on Friday, when we had a cleaning session...

Opportunity knocks!

For those of you old enough to remember talent shows before ‘The X Factor’ and ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, there was a show called ‘Opportunity Knocks’. This talent show was famously hosted by Hughie Green, and later editions were...

Blessed be Your Name

“Life is full of light and shadow”, the DavidCrowder*Band song ‘Shadows’ goes. It’s full of ups and downs and twists and turns. Very rarely does it seem as though we’re on a straight road. Life, it seems to me, is more like a...

Fermat’s Last Theorem

I do apologise in advance for the randomness of this post. My Internet home page is set to Google and as you may know, they put pretty pictures on there of things of general interest. It’s a bit like having an automatic calendar. Birthdays and anniversaries (see...

Differing attitudes to birthdays…

People have very different attitudes to birthdays. Some love them. Some dread them. Some are indifferent to them. In a similar manner, people have very different attitudes to the birthday box at church, and this was very definitely demonstrated this last Sunday. We...