Author: raymond

If you had to pick one of the great events of the Christian faith to be the greatest, which one would you choose? Might it be the Creation of the World? Without that, there would be no where for Christ

I had an email from Australia today. It said ‘see you later’, and so I shall. Anyone can join a meeting on Zoom from almost anywhere, no longer to we have to be in the same place to meet.  

It was TS Eliot who said ‘The end is where we start from’. And so it is. To be alive is to see change and be a part of change. Whenever one thing ends, it is an opportunity for something

I wonder what words we could use to describe ‘Mother’. A Mother has compassion, is kind, puts her child before herself. A Mother is gentle and patient A Mother forgives A Mother loves and hold a family together. You can

Jesus asked several people “What do you want me to do for you?” (Bartimeaus, Matthew 20:32, Mark 10:51, Luke 18:41; James and John, Mark 10:36). For the blind who wanted to see, he granted their request; for James and John,

Do you ever wish God would tell you more about the future? We believe he has a plan, even if we sometimes wish he’d reveal a bit more of it. But what about the plan God has revealed? How much

Lent is the end of Chocolate, isn’t it? Or the end of something else you like, if giving up Chocolate is too much of a sacrifice. But what if we flip our thinking along with our pancakes and say that

We live in a world where there is a wonderful array of difference. Different flowers, different foods, different people, different nations, different cultures. And that difference highlights what a glorious world God has created. Difference should be a matter of

The idea of an Elevator Pitch is that you have the length of an elevator ride to explain what is important. It’s quite hard to do if you aren’t prepared, and one of the benefits of preparing is that you

In the first part of Ephesians 1 we saw how God has chosen us to be his children. This week we go beyond that to consider how, if God has chosen us, how does that choice become real to us.