Take another look at the Cross! As we grow up we learn that the mark of the cross can indicate a number of different things. AT SCHOOL is means we’ve done something wrong. It’s more pleasing to get a tick at the side of our answers, but sometimes we get them wrong. IN OUR TEENAGE [...]

Sunday is a funny day It starts with lots of noise. Mummy rushes round with socks, And Daddy shouts, “You boys!” The Mummy says, “Now don’t blame them, You know you’re just as bad. You’ve only just got out of bed, It really makes me mad.” My mummy is a Christian, My daddy is as [...]

A few weeks before Nine Eleven, 2001, my wife and I found out we were going to have our first child. She planned a trip to California to visit her sister. On our way to the airport, we prayed that God would grant my wife a safe trip. Shortly afterwards we both heard a loud [...]

When I was five years old before seat belts and safety regulations, my family was driving home at night on a country road. I was sitting on my mother’s lap when another car , driven by a drunk driver, swerved into our lane and hit us head on. I don’t have any memory of the [...]

When I was five years old, before factory installed seat belts and automobile air bags, my family was driving home at night on a two-lane country road. I was sitting on my mother’s lap when another car driven by a drunk driver, swerved into our lane and hit us head-on. I don’t have any memory [...]

The first beacon of the Eddy Stone lighthouse off the coast of Plymouth, was placed there over 200 years ago to warn ships of the dangerous reefs. Winstanley the architect who built it, was so confident of its strength that he wrote on the cornerstone: ‘Blow O you winds, rise O ocean, break out you [...]

Resurrection!  Resurrection!  Resurrection! You humble souls that seek the Lord, Chase all your fears away; And bow with rapture down to see The place where Jesus lay. How low the Lord of Life was brought, Such wonders love can do; How cold in death that heart did lay, Which throbbed and bled for you. But [...]

We need one day in which work comes to a screeching halt. Even God rested from His creative work on the seventh day. We need one twenty four hour period in which the wheels stop turning and the motor stops running. We need to stop – habitually. Here is a verse that sums up many [...]

Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left our World flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But He didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and coloured our sky in blue. Was He obliged to make the birds sing? Why give [...]

The Decision From Bethlehem’s manger, to Calvary’s Hill, Just thirty three years, then time stood still. For the Child Who was born in a cattle shed Now hangs on a Cross, with thorns on His head. A star shone bright to announce His birth, But darkness reigns as He leaves the Earth. Gold, frankincense and [...]

The Great Divide The rich man feasted all the day long, while the poor man lay at his door. The rich man’s body was sleek and fat, while the poor man’s body was thin and sore. The rich man’s clothes were costly and fine but the poor man’s clothes were dirty and worn. O save [...]

It was stretched 160 feet above the water, and it measured 1100 feet. By now you’ve guessed it, it was a tightrope, and the place was the Niagara Falls. The year was 1859. In front of a large tense, excited crowd, the Frenchman called Blondin was about to attempt a tightrope walk across this mighty [...]

Some years ago I used to commute to London’s West End on business. While working in that area of the Capital, I came across a shop situated in a side street off Regents street, selling left hand goods, such as scissors etc. The sign over the door read: The Left Hand Shop. My father was [...]

Letters to the Editor are a popular feature in our national and local press. Some years ago the Times newspaper asked its readers to answer this question: ‘What is wrong with the World?’  It provoked a flood of letters giving all kinds of reasons why. If that same question was put to us today, no [...]

I was regretting the past And fearing the future. Suddenly my Lord was speaking: “My name is I AM.” He paused, I waited, He continued. “When you live in the past With its mistakes and regrets, It is hard, I am not there. My name is not I was.” “When you live in the future [...]