A Proportional God?

Stephen asked the question tonight ‘what proportion of God is in your life?’ God desires our total surrender to Him, but many things can interfere with that. Our earthly desires, work, family, hobbies and other things can interfere with our devotion to...

Our Response to Pits of Peril

Troubles without number may surround us; our sins may overtake us so that we are left facing all kinds of peril, but we can still be confident that as we wait patiently for the Lord and call to him out of the depths of our distress, He will hear our cry for help and...

Joseph, Jonah and Jeremiah

Joseph, Jonah and Jeremiah are all examples of people who found themselves in literal pits at one time or other, but who also experienced God’s rescue, help and blessing. Joseph ended up being thrown into a cistern by his own brothers, who later sold him into...

Pits of Peril

When my son was little, we used to watch the ‘Thunderbirds’ programme, where International Rescue used their amazing spacecraft to save the world. One of his favourite episodes was called the ‘Pit of Peril’, when the Thunderbirds team was called on to rescue a U.S....

Are you creative?

Are you creative? That’s a very loaded question, because we all have different ideas of what it means to be creative. I firmly believe all people are creative, but often we don’t recognise creativity because we have a limited definition of what that word means....