I thought it would be good to join with other believers around the world who are committed to meditations around Lent. I am therefore sharing with you, what I believe to be one of Charles Wesley’s greatest hymns. Indeed, Wesley only completed the hymn on his death bed in 1788...
There are numerous Biblical characters who experienced incredible highs and startling lows. Yet, I suspect few if any experienced the extremes that David knew. We first meet David as a shepherd boy who wrote songs of praise while tending sheep on the hills above Bethlehem. However, within a matter of...
Over the years, I have spent many hours with people who are facing a variety of difficult situations. Whatever their challenge. Whether it be bereavement, unemployment, sickness or strained relationships, I seek to encourage them, not to be ‘robbed’ of their joy in Jesus. In the scriptures we often read...
Over the last few days, I have found myself gripped by Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. In order that his readers understand the privilege of knowing Jesus, there are occasions when Paul compares and contrasts their experience of God with those that people had within the time-frame of the...
We are now moving into the third week of the New Year. For many that means that well-intended resolutions are becoming increasingly difficult to keep and their renewed optimism is being replaced by a harsher reality. I am therefore very thankful that we chose to begin our year together, not...
I am writing this on Wednesday morning prior to heading away for a week long break. Having briefly browsed the front pages, I realise that God only knows what will happen over the next few days. At present it appears that Robert Mugabe has been deposed, that Donald Trump and...
This weekend, across the nation, people will be stopping in order to remember the ultimate sacrifice others have made. With gratitude we give thanks for the lives of service men and women who have died in order that as a nation we would continue to enjoy relative freedom and continued...
Preparing for the Alpha session on Monday night, I came across a much repeated quote from John Wesley. The great 18th Century preacher was mightily used by God in pioneering the Methodist movement, helping to spiritually awake the nation and in speaking against social injustice. Wesley said ‘God does nothing...
It strikes me that there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who are ‘morning people’ and those who are not! Now I apologise to you who wear out the snooze buttons on your alarm clocks and turn over longing for a ‘duvet day’, but I love mornings....
I read this morning the latest instalment in the showdown between the United States and North Korea. You are probably aware that, in light of North Korea’s desire to build a nuclear arsenal, President Trump has warned that they face ‘fire and fury, like the world has never seen’....
