Lockdown

At this time of national lockdown, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and even despairing, especially when faced with a barrage of constant bad news. God spoke very clearly to me at the start of the year from Psalm 112, and I am holding on to these verses:...

New Year’s Change

With every New Year comes talk of change: New Year’s resolutions, how to change our lifestyles and so on. Tonight, we explored the subject of change through Mickey’s drawings… Mickey, our resident puppet, set us the task of guessing what his drawings...

Dealing With Change

Garry continued looking at the life of Joseph this morning, focussing on the changes to his life recorded in Genesis 37. In this chapter, we see Joseph reduced from favourite son of Jacob to being sold into slavery by his brothers. From being the favourite son, he...

Plough Sunday

One of the downsides of being part of a church tradition that doesn’t follow a liturgy or weekly church calendar is that sometimes you miss out on unusual events that can help us to look at all life from a spiritual perspective. One of these (perhaps rather odd)...

No Fear Of Bad News

As we approach the end of 2020 and the advent of a new year, many of us feel more nervous and apprehensive than usual. This past year has been so unusual and ‘unprecedented’ (surely one of the words we never want to hear again!) that our usual nostalgia at...