Compassion Updates

We have had a letter from Bedline, thanking us for our support and telling us about her Christmas celebrations. It is Bedline’s birthday on 19th March (she will be 7 years old), so please do pray for her. We have sent cards and a gift, but we pray God will...

More Updates

Life in Goldthorpe is busy! This Sunday, we have our morning meeting at Cherry Tree Court at 10.30 a.m. and then a special evening service focussing on the forthcoming mission trip to India at 6 p.m. Please come along to find out more about the trip, what to pray for...

Sloth Disguised as Busyness

Before moving on from the sin of sloth, I feel I must also point out that sloth does not always look like a lager lout sprawled out on a couch in front of the TV. Someone who is slothful may also look extremely busy to everyone else and never consider themselves...

Sloth

A sloth is a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws. Flanders and Swann wrote a wonderful song about the sloth which says, ‘A Bradypus, or Sloth, am I, I live a life of ease...

Weeding Out Envy

I hate gardening with a passion, though I do love to look at other people’s gardens. The reason I dislike gardening so much is fundamentally because I am lazy and it is hard work. Weeding is one job I particularly dislike, since weeds seem to grow so much more quickly...

Guarding Our Hearts

Lust is another of the seven deadly sins which can easily ensnare our hearts. Lust is usually associated with sexual sins, though it is actually defined as an ‘intense desire’ for something, which can, of course, refer to other things (such as a lust for power or...