A Tribute to Mothers

On this Mothering Sunday, Dave spoke about mothers – the definition being a woman who has given birth to a child, but also broadened to those who care for children, even if they are not her own. The joy of motherhood can be exaggerated (often confined to when...

Lessons In Gratitude

This morning we looked at how Jesus healed ten lepers, only one of whom returned to give thanks to God. (Luke 17:11-19) This miracle of healing shows us Jesus’s concern for even the outcasts in society; His willingness to heal (and touch) those in need remains...

Parallel Universes

In the realm of fantasy and science-fiction novels, the concept of parallel universes (a world conceived of as coexisting with and having certain similarities to the known world but different from it in some fundamental way) is quite common. C. S. Lewis wrote of the...

Stand Firm!

Terry Goodkind wrote a fantasy series called the ‘Sword of Truth’ in which one character (Richard), injured in battle, wakes to find not only his beloved wife missing but all memory of her apparently erased. (‘Chainfire’) His struggle to find...

Acts Of Worship

“Worship opens doors to all His goodness.” (Ps 34:9, The Message) Worship of God is an act of faith. No one has seen God, a simple fact which puts off many who believe that ‘seeing is believing.’ We worship God by faith, not only believing that...