Friends, Have you gone from “Isn’t the weather glorious?” to “It’s a bit too hot for me” I wonder? I think, much as I hate to admit it, that I have. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the wonderful weather, but it’s so hot! Hard to sleep, and too much to be out in the … [Read more…]
Brothers and Sisters The weather really has changed and as we get out our sandals, we also start to experience something of the dirt and the dust on our feet that would have been the daily experience of Jesus and his contemporaries. That dust, in a world where walking was the usual way around, was … [Read more…]
Brothers and Sisters, As I look out of the manse window, the weather has finally taken a turn for the better and even early in the morning, the sky is blue and clear. A friend has sent me a card to celebrate the May Bank Holiday which has bluebells and teddy-bears enjoying a picnic in … [Read more…]
Brothers and Sisters Last week at the Circuit Safeguarders’ meeting we were discussing social media. How do we write and implement a good policy in the face of something which is so rapidly changing and which we only have to begin to understand and use ourselves for our young people to move on to something … [Read more…]
After Jesus had been raised from the dead, he appeared to the disciples on more than one occasion. In the Gospel of Luke we read: Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead … [Read more…]