Being Weaned

There comes a time in a baby’s life (usually around six months old) when milk is not enough to sustain growth and solid foods have to be gradually introduced. Food still has to be pureed, but this is the time when new tastes and textures can be introduced into a...

Humility, Satisfaction & Contentment

This morning’s sermon looked at Ps 131, a psalm which deals with the topics of humility, satisfaction and contentment, qualities which are sorely in need in today’s acquisitive, dissatisfied society. Its simplicity (only three verses long) may cause us to skip over...

June prayer topic

We don’t live in a vacuum, but in a world that desperately needs peace and godliness. Our prayers that God’s ways will prevail (over the manipulation and misuse of power in politics) are crucially important. All the politics we know in the natural realm require...

June politics…

June 2016 is an important month in UK politics, as the referendum on whether to leave or remain in the European Union takes place on 23 June. I have very little interest in politics, having a certain sympathy with a quote I once read in a children’s book that...

The Secret Place

One of the first Christian (auto)biographies I ever read was Corrie Ten Boom’s ‘The Hiding Place’ which dealt with her family’s life-changing decision to hide Jews in their home during the Second World War. The title always reminds me not only...