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Do you ever think God needs a little help to move his plans along? Despite all the amazing promises that God made, Abram and Sarai still think God needs their help with his salvation plan! To be fair, 10 years have passed (Abram is now 86, see Genesis 16:16) and there is still no pitter…

Today is Duchenne Awareness Day. Duchenne is a progressive muscle wasting disease that can make life really hard. We lost my sister-in-law (Elizabeth) to this disease, and our son suffers with it. He has fractured his skull, and broken his leg twice and is now dependent on a wheelchair to get around. It can be…

“We’re just waiting for the wheelchair to get on.” I’m sure the bus driver didn’t mean anything by it, but it upset William, he is a boy and not a wheelchair! I tried explaining that the bus driver didn’t know William’s name, but he could have said the boy. Or as William suggested the boy…

What has happened to gentleness? I think it’s something that today’s world would benefit from greatly! There are plenty of people who are polite on the surface, but cross them and they explode! What has happened to gentleness? We are supposed to be a tolerant society, but try disagreeing with those who say we should…

We’re just over half way through the year, a good time to remember any New Year resolutions you made! How did you get on? Why is change so hard? Why do we keep making the same mistakes? In Titus 2, Paul tells us the secret to self-controlled, godly lives. The secret is not found in…

Solomon’s sin of ignoring what God said about sex and marriage led him into idol worship. This in turn resulted in a tragic split in the kingdom. We were told it would happen in 1 Kings 11 and now in 1 Kings 12 and 2 Chronicles 10-11 we are told what happened. It happens after…

What’s the point? Why keep going? Solomon wrestled with these questions 3000 years ago as he wrote “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” As we have seen this means life is like a vapour or mist that disappears, if you try and grab hold of it, it just disappears faster. How can we make sense…

“Times have changed” someone might say. Many of the bishops in the Church of England seem to think its ok to move on from Scripture in the area of sexuality, maybe you have experienced similar comments, or teaching that undermines what the Bible says. Yesterday we heard the need to guard our steps as we…

My wife hates bananas! If I decided I wanted to show Dorothy how much I love her, I wouldn’t buy her a bunch of bananas! If I did, it would show that either I didn’t know her or just didn’t care what she thought. Sometimes when it comes to worship, people don’t think about what…

Time flies! When you realise this, and that you can’t slow it down what do you do? Do you try and cram in as much as you can? Try and fit in as many experiences as you can, try and get to the top of your career, make a name for yourself? The book of…