Musings on fish

We have kept fish as pets for about eighteen years now, since our son first won a goldfish at a fair (which died two days later, just as he was excitedly writing about ‘my first pet’ at school.) I had never had a pet fish myself as a child, and was...

You Never Run Out On Us

Following on from the song ‘One Thing Remains’, I was reminded of a passage in Lamentations 3, very familiar to most Christians, but given a slightly different twist in the Message version. The first time I read this was when a friend of mine was going...

One Thing Remains

“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears....

Trials: Gifts and Friends…

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”...

The General Epistles

Tonight we started looking at the ‘General Epistles’, or those letters in the New Testament not written by Paul:1. James2. 1 Peter3. 2 Peter4. 1 John5. 2 John6. 3 John7. JudeTonight we looked at some of the background to James and then at the first 4...