God Moves In Mysterious Ways

William Cowper’s hymn contains some very pertinent and still relevant truths: ‘God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures...

How far is too far?

God’s love, Garry reminded us, goes much further than our love. We may not fully understand why He created us with free will; we certainly do not understand how He can use even evil, pain and suffering for good (as John Dickson remarks, ‘But here we arrive...

Love, But Not As We Know It.

Many people struggle with the idea of God and His love, simply imagining God to be a ‘bigger version’ of humans and His love to be a little bit bigger than ours. The truth is that we are made in God’s image (not the other way round!) and His love is...

Distraction

It’s very easy in life to get distracted. We are seeing this all the time at the moment with our first grandchild who has just learned to crawl and who is desperate to learn to walk. She is, as a consequence, having to cope with falling down on a regular basis,...

Wise Words

At Cherry Tree Court, we looked at the subject of wise words. As Christians, our rule of thumb for speech is found in Eph 4:29: ‘Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it...