What’s Happening
Measuring Love
1 Cor 13 gives us God's measurements of love. How are we measuring up? Love is patient. (1 Cor 13:4) It waits. It is not in a hurry. It doesn't flounce off when things don't happen to our timescales or give up when things are slow. I think there's a reason God made a...
read moreOuch!
Yesterday, I managed to cut my finger. I still don't know how I actually did this, but I suddenly became aware of pain, looked down and found blood oozing from a long cut that looked like I'd sliced the finger on something sharp. The Bible describes itself as being...
read moreMessy Moulding
'Messy play' is an important part of growing up. With a toddler, it refers to playing with different media such as paint, glue, playdough, glitter, sand and water, all of which have the capacity to be messy. Messy play usually ends up with paint daubed everywhere and...
read moreTalking Point
Get Wet For God!
My granddaughter has recently discovered the joys of a warm summer and public fountains... At the same time, however, she was initially nervous of these fountains because they were pre-programmed to disperse water at different speeds and heights and she was wary. She...
read moreTransgender Issues
Garry continued his 'Talking Point' series tonight, looking at transgender issues. Gender is generally understood as 'the state of being male or female', and transgender is defined as 'denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does...
read morePaid On The Nail
Graham Kendrick captures the value of an individual in this song: 'Is a rich man worth more than a poor man? A stranger worth less than a friend? Is a baby worth more than an old man? Your beginning worth more than your end? Is a president worth more than his...
read moreHow We Got Here
Months later…
Do you ever reach the end of a book where all the strands are neatly tied together and wonder 'what happens next?' to the characters?I love books which feature the same characters, as essentially I get engrossed with them and want to know how things work out for them,...
read moreNew blog!
This blog will soon be running out of things to say, since it was created specifically to chart the progress of the church as it renovated St Mark's. Once I've got all the details down about the Open Day, I won't be posting here any more.But do not despair! The church...
read moreA House of Prayer
One of our prayers is that the new building will indeed become a house of prayer. At the Open Day, we listed the many answers to prayer we have seen over the journey to acquire St Mark's and renovate the building, and we look forward to recording many more answers.A...
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