I recently organised a surprise baby shower for my daughter-in-law, and found the experience of keeping secrets from her stressful to say the least. My son knew only that they had to be in a certain place at a certain time; I dare not tell my grandchildren about the...

Tonight we looked at the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1-23) with the children, who happily gave out 'seeds' (aka fake snowballs) to adults in the congregation and then actually got to plant their own seeds. (Hopefully we will have cress to see as a result!) The...

John 6 is a long chapter featuring an extraordinary day: a day when Jesus learned of the death of John the Baptist, taught crowds of people for hours, fed thousands of people miraculously and then walked on water to reach His disciples in a boat on Lake Galilee. If...