Seeds

Tonight’s family service was on the theme of ‘Seeds’. As with a traditional harvest festival, we brought a variety of foods to give to the community: Then we had a quiz from the ‘Book of Seeds’ where we had to identify what the seeds grew...

Applied faith

There are essentially two branches of mathematics: pure maths and applied maths. Pure maths deals with the development of the principles of mathematics for the sake of the principles of mathematics. It’s quite close to philosophy in that sense. The interest is in the...

Agreeing with God

This morning’s sermon looked at Mary’s response to the angelic announcement in Luke 1:38 TNIV: “May it be to me as you have said.”, “May your word to me be fulfilled.” (Luke 1:38 TNIV), “Be it unto me according to thy word” (Luke 1:38 KJV).Faith and trust...

Tessellation, or iron sharpening iron….

As I looked at the tiling in the kitchen, I was reminded once again of how much I love tessellated shapes (where one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, are fitted together with no overlaps and no gap.)I love hexagons because they fit together so well: Lots of...

Tiling work

After the fitting of the units came the tiling: Throughout September, we are praying for economic regeneration in our area and we are grateful that God has supplied the funds for us to be able to employ local businesses in the refurbishment work that is being done in...

Precision work

There is a lot of precision work involved in fitting a kitchen! Can you see the join? All of this work goes to make the finished product: In the same way that we marvel at the precision and skill of a craftsman who is skilled in his work, we need to understand that...