• The Lord Needs It

    The Lord Needs It

    Doorways to great buildings are overlooked because visitors are eager to see what’s beyond them. Positioned at the start of Easter week, the account of how Jesus acquired an animal...

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  • Time to Talk: Mental Health Awareness

    Time to Talk: Mental Health Awareness

    I’m told that there are at least a thousand ‘awareness days’ on the calendar every year which, given there are only 365 days, suggests a lot of competition. One cause...

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  • Bonhoeffer

    Bonhoeffer

    I just watched the new film Bonhoeffer and, for various reasons, thoroughly recommend it. It is a well-shot, quality production with excellent acting, especially that of Jonas Dassler in the lead role....

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  • Celebrating Celebrations

    Celebrating Celebrations

    In the Northern Hemisphere, the dark days of late January are the time for both Burns Night (25th) and Chinese New Year (29th). The first marks the anniversary of the...

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  • The New Year

    The New Year

    You crown the year with a bountiful harvest;even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.’(Psalm 65:11 NLT)   Happy New Year to you all! Thinking about what lies ahead, Killy and...

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  • What’s the point in Christmas?

    What’s the point in Christmas?

    Let me answer this question by first referring to a monk from eastern Europe called Dionysius Exiguus – ‘Little Denis’ – who 500 years after the birth of Christ was...

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  • Gifts for the Homeless

    Gifts for the Homeless

    Homeless people seem to be an increasingly common feature of our urban landscapes, sitting on the streets with their sleeping bags and blankets. We may be aware, too, that such...

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  • Proclaiming Christ in a time of opposition and opportunity

    Proclaiming Christ in a time of opposition and opportunity

    Despite being busy with evangelistic preaching, teaching and ministry, I make time to understand the world we live in. I need to because the challenge in evangelism is to present...

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  • Finding the Way on the Roundabout of Life

    Finding the Way on the Roundabout of Life

    The most stressful thing about driving today is the modern mega roundabout. Drivers new and old can stress at the prospect of weaving their way through the congested race of...

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  • Keep the Faith

    Keep the Faith

    We all know people that have left the Christian faith. In thinking about this I am reminded of Aslan’s constant statement in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia books of the danger of focusing on...

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  • Autumn

    Autumn

    God speaks to us through both his word and his world. Here in the Northern Hemisphere autumn is now well underway and in it I see a message from God....

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  • Innovation

    Innovation

    Watching the Olympics, I was reminded of how Dick Fosbury transformed high jump events. He began his career taking the high jump in the traditional way: running at the bar...

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