Do you remember that hilarious sketch on Comic Relief from a few years ago where comedian James Corden was telling the England football team where they were going wrong and how they should play the game. Players like David Beckham, Frank Lampard and Peter Crouch…
God has blessed us in so many ways! He has forgiven our sins and given us new life, life in all its fullness, eternal life, a relationship with God as our Father. We have God the Holy Spirit living inside us and the happy certainty…
Matthew 13:31-33 Do you ever feel like giving up in the Christian life? It’s too hard. It’s too much effort. God seems to be blessing other people and never you. God seems to be blessing other churches but never ours. Perhaps you feel a failure…
Matthew 13:1-9 In this envelope is something worth more than you can possibly imagine. It isn’t the deeds to a new house. It isn’t a winning ticket to the national lottery or even the euromillions draw. It is much more valuable than those things. In…
A fair day’s pay It is a scene I have found in Uganda and in Bulgaria. It is multiplied all over Eastern Europe and all over the Third World. Groups of men standing by the side of the road in the hope that a truck…
LOST and FOUND Luke 15 When I was young we had family holidays on a farm in Devon with Farmer Pugsley and Mrs Pugsley. At Easter of 1963 it snowed – and we were snowed in. It was lambing time and there were still lambs…
Become like little children Matt 18:1-10 090222A Matt 18:3 And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. What did Jesus mean by “become like little children”? Little children –…