Fools for Christ

Tonight’s family service looked at the subject of ‘fools for Christ’ (bearing in mind 1st April in the UK is known as April Fools’ Day, a chance to play practical jokes on people up to 12 noon!) Dave spoke from 1 Cor 1:18-25, reminding us that...

Choose where you focus

Thornton Wilder said ‘Hope is a projection of the imagination; so is despair. Despair all too readily embraces the ills it foresees; hope is an energy and arouses the mind to explore every possibility to combat them…’ As someone who is pessimistic by...

Hoping and waiting

Ps 130 is a psalm which talks of hoping and waiting. It begins ‘out of the depths I cry to you, Lord’ (Ps 130:1), and there will always be times when we feel out of our depth and in danger of despairing. The key in these times is to keep the channels of...

Polarities

Polarity is defined as having to do with the poles (e.g. the North Pole and South Pole), is often connected with the direction of a magnetic or electric field and has a derived meaning from these: ‘the state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies,...

Of second birthdays and dual citizenship

Ralph reminded us on Sunday night of an alternative verse to ‘Happy Birthday’ which goes: ‘Happy Birthday to you, Only one will not do. Take the gift of salvation, And then you’ll have two!’ It was good to celebrate his birthday: However,...