August Birthdays

We had two more birthdays to celebrate tonight (apologies for the photos, taken on my phone rather than on a camera; perhaps I should just admit to not being a photographer!)

Journey With The Light

Journeys can be great fun, but at times – usually because of bad weather, with poor visibility, high winds and driving rain – they can also be frightening and daunting. Journeys on mountain passes when visibility is not good are particularly dangerous...

Eternal Perspectives

The many people who worked in the nib-making industry in Birmingham in the past would probably have told you that they were making nibs. With each worker expected to produce 18,000 nibs a day, the sheer number of nibs produced in the city was phenomenal; it is...

Nibmaker to the King

Garry continued looking at Rom 12:9-21 this morning, focussing initially on Rom 12:10 which tells us to be devoted to each other in love. This kind of ‘brotherly love’ (made up of two Greek words for love, philia & storge) involves the affection and...

“I Don’t Get It!”

In teaching, one of the most disheartening phrases a pupil can say to you is “I don’t get it!” As a teacher, the aim is to pass on knowledge and skill in such a way that the pupil understands and can do, and the phrase “I don’t get...