Yesterday, we talked about how thanksgiving can enhance our appreciation of the people in our lives, and enrich our friendships. I believe thanksgiving is important, for the difficult and challenging people in our lives also. They too can be a blessing to us, if we allow the Holy Spirit to be our helper on our […]

We attended the funeral yesterday of an old friend, and in the course of preparing a short appreciation of him for the service, Mark, my husband, got out some old photos of holidays and times shared together, and we fell to reminiscing about our friendship of some 40 years. We had always enjoyed and valued […]

I was impressed this morning by the simplicity of the statement GIVE THANKS, It’s different to ‘being thankful, or even having a heart of gratitude. It’s an activity, a choice, and wonderfully it is something everyone can do. We don’t need money, education, status, or any particular skill. It is in fact one of the […]

If we think of a Godly life as one that manifests the character of God, we can see that the fruit of the Spirit, listed for us by Paul in Galatians 5 : 22 encapsulate the ‘God-like-ness’ our new life in Christ should portray. We will see love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, […]

In 1 Timothy 6:6 Paul writes and tells his readers that ‘Godliness with contentment is great gain’ AV And yet here we have another challenge to our peace and wellbeing in 2021. The spirit of the age, the ‘atmosphere’ in which we live is designed to make us discontent in every area of our lives. […]

We are living in a media age, where we can get so much information about all the bad things happening in the world, that sometimes it feels like the news is just a display case for all that the enemy is doing. Famine, war, disease, poverty, natural disasters and the evil mankind perpetrates on fellow […]

Over the years, I have seen how amazing thanksgiving can be in helping to smooth glitches in our human           relationships. When things are a little tense or awkward, saying thank you to someone for something they have done, or for who they have been to you in your life, can do a lot to restore […]

We are living at a time when so many people don’t actually know that there is a God who cares about them. It has become very clear during this current pandemic that the devil has done a good job of convincing everyone that God doesn’t exist, so that when in real trouble not many people […]

In Luke Chapter 17 we have the well know story of the ten lepers who met Jesus and begged Him to have mercy on them. Their condition made normal life completely impossible for them, and they appealed to Jesus’ compassion to do something for them. He tells them to go and show themselves to the […]

There is much talk in our day about ‘the presence of God’, and we do hear of those times when the Lord’s presence is overwhelming. We read of such an occasion in 2 Chronicles 7 vs 1-3 when Solomon dedicated His temple and the glory of the Lord filled the house so that the priests […]