I feel excited about today’s blog, because I believe it is in God’s heart to give us an invitation. One that I hope we won’t be able to refuse. So! Talking about personal ‘sacrifice’ is not likely to draw a crowd. Sacrifice is often associated with death, like the death of those in the wars […]

It occurred to me today that ‘thanksgiving’ can be active or, in polite society, something that is almost passive. May be someone in your household has borrowed a book or something impersonal and, in passing, they put it back on the table by you, saying casually, “By the way there’s that book I borrowed a […]

During this current pandemic, many of us have experienced ‘shut doors’, places where we have been denied access. At the height of our ‘lockdowns’ this has affected care homes, churches, childrens, playgrounds, clubs and pubs, even countries and so much more. Even when places were not completely closed access has often been limited, and conditions […]

Yesterday we were reflecting and being thrilled afresh that our God is a giver through and through. We know that the bible is absolutely clear that God is love. Sometimes however our concept and ideas about love are clouded by the modern expressions of love that seem to be more about what I can get […]

When we began this year of thanksgiving, I had no idea how absolutely fundamental, and essential, thanksgiving was going to prove to be in our relationship with the Lord. We started with Psalm 100:4 ‘Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the Lord […]

The verse that always comes to mind when thinking about prayer is Philippians 4:6, ‘Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus’. For the last […]

Yesterday we wrote that, in our conversations with God, it is good to ask the right kinds of questions. We made the statement that ‘Why?’ questions are often not helpful, but we do need to qualify this because even a ‘Why?’ question can be helpful in our dialogue with God if it is asked with […]

Yesterday we were sharing from the scriptures the truth that God is like the potter to our clay, and we were reminding ourselves that the hands that are moulding us are not the hands of just any potter, they are the hands of our loving heavenly Father. The fact that we have quoted God saying […]

In the book of Isaiah, we read both of God speaking to His people prophetically, and the prophet Isaiah, responding to His words and praying for His nation. At one point he reminds God of all the times when He did amazing things to rescue His people, and then he acknowledges the bad state that […]

Over the last two days we have seen how keeping an attitude of gratitude, keeping a thankful heart towards God, can help us to stay flexible. It can help us to avoid being locked in to rigid views about what should or shouldn’t happen, both in our own  lives and the lives of others, or […]