God’s time

When my son was very small, he had a fascination with clocks. In fact, his first word was ‘clo’ (though it was actually addressed to a barometer, we were so excited to hear this recognisable word that that discrepancy never bothered us, nor the fact that...

Culture wars (2)

Garry continued the Bible study on culture wars which initially started with looking at Paul’s revolutionary request to Philemon that he should welcome former slave Onesimus back into his household as a fellow brother in Christ rather than as a slave treated as...

Happy birthday!

Brenda’s family organised a barbecue to celebrate her special birthday and, with characteristic selflessness, she turned that into a fund-raising event for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Here is the church contingency enjoying the food!

Morning Rises

‘Morning Rises’ is the name of the new Aaron Shust album, due out on 16th July and eagerly anticipated in our household! Today, I read an interview in ‘CCM Magazine’ about the album, in which Aaron Shust said, ‘My primary litmus test for...

‘Epiphanies of the Ordinary’

What makes someone buy a book? (or a DVD or a CD or anything else, for that matter…) What is the ‘key factor’ in motivating someone to move from looking to purchasing? The marketing and advertising industries work hard at identifying that elusive...