The Psalms of Ascent

  Pilgrimages featured heavily on the R.S. GCSE papers this year and the Psalms of Ascent (Ps 120-134) were the Jewish songbook for the three annual pilgrimages they took to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover, the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) and the Feast of...

First Steps

Every journey begins with a first step. We watch our children learn to smile, sit up, turn over, crawl and stand up, and then comes that first step. Tottering, often needing the ‘prop’ of a hand or the furniture to steady those wobbly legs, we clap in...

Reverence

Garry spoke tonight on the subject of reverence. On 17 June 2018, tourists in the Kruger National Park in South Africa almost lost their lives when one of them wound down the window of the Jeep they were travelling in in order to stroke a lion who had come to lie in...

God Doesn’t Do Makeovers

  Mark spoke this morning from Psalm 23:3 (‘He restores my soul’) and commented that God doesn’t do makeovers… He is interested in soul restoration instead. Makeovers tend to focus on the external, looking at beauty treatments,...

Evicting Tenants

I have never been a landlord in the conventional sense of the word, but I have known people who own and manage properties and have come to realise there are all kinds of tenants, ranging from the near-perfect-causing-no-problems ones to the ones whose behaviour leaves...