Dealing With Hatred (2)

Ron Potter-Efron, author of “Angry All The Time”, says that anger is behind all hatred. He charts the path from anger to hate, saying that: initially we feel upset about something we blame someone else for causing this problem the problem is not resolved...

Dealing With Hatred

Garry continued to speak on the life of Joseph this morning, focussing on Gen 37:1-5. Joseph was the son of Jacob and Rachel and had eleven brothers and one sister; perhaps because he was born when Jacob was older and was the first child born to Rachel, his favourite...

November mists

Around Highgate this morning, the streets were eerily shrouded in mist: How we need God’s light to shine so that the mists are driven away by the brilliance of His light: ‘For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our...

Meandering

I always love it when I discover the etymology of a word and today, as I am preparing for next week’s Bible study, I have discovered the origins of our word ‘to meander.’ This word means to wind or twist and is often used of a river, because it is...

A Call To Prayer

I love the Message version of 1 Timothy 2:1-3, urging us to pray: “The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business...