Garry preached on confirming your calling from 2 Peter 1:3-11 yesterday morning. There, Peter tells us 'be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure.' The word 'confirm' or 'make sure' has the idea of a firm foundation or an anchor, something that is...

We have kept fish as pets for about eighteen years now, since our son first won a goldfish at a fair (which died two days later, just as he was excitedly writing about 'my first pet' at school.) I had never had a pet fish myself as a child, and was unprepared for the...

Following on from the song 'One Thing Remains', I was reminded of a passage in Lamentations 3, very familiar to most Christians, but given a slightly different twist in the Message version. The first time I read this was when a friend of mine was going through the...