I was reading Jesus response to the two brothers, James and John, when they asked Him if they could sit ‘one on your right and the other at your left in your glory’. They clearly wanted to be the most favoured and the most important in His Kingdom. Jesus doesn’t tell them off but simply […]

Yesterday we were talking about the fact that there is always sufficient grace for every eventuality, and it occurred to me that sufficient is often the way God is with us. One step at a time, grace for the moment. It’s everflowing but it’s never all stored up. Why? Because it’s about ‘walking’ with the […]

I wonder how you woke up this morning? Fresh as the proverbial daisy? Feeling overwhelmed by what today holds? Feeling tired from a night of tossing and turning? Or excited by all the possibilities today brings? Probably for most of us there is a bit of a kaleidoscope going on with all of those things […]

When we find ourselves in a difficult situation or concerned about someone we love, I guess it’s an automatic reaction to ‘pray’, to talk to God. Now whether it’s a short sharp ‘HELP’ kind of prayer, a long deep intercessory prayer, or anything in between, we are often motivated by the circumstances that we see […]

In that amazing prophecy in Isaiah 61:1-6, which Jesus quoted in the synagogue in Nazareth, thereby confirming that it was indeed a Messianic mission statement, it tells us that the Spirit of the Lord would be on the Messiah, anointing Him to ‘preach good news to the poor, bind up the broken hearted, proclaim freedom […]

After I had my cataracts removed last year, I could undoubtedly see things very much more clearly and in  richer colour than I had become use to but, mysteriously, I still found that if I looked for example at the moon I would see two moons, a bright moon and a shadow. A recent visit […]

Over the last two days we have been considering how thanksgiving is a really important ingredient in being a follower of the Lord Jesus, and in practically discovering joy and peace in the Lord being my shepherd, and me being a sheep who is learning to hear His voice and so follow Him. We reflected […]

I was a relatively new Christian at a Christian convention, and I was being offered a place at a Bible College if I would just sign up there and then. It felt like it could be a ‘Follow Me’ moment. Was Jesus asking me to leave everything, i.e my University course, to follow Him? This […]

There is much talk today about ‘followers’, and about how many ‘followers’ people have, and of course we are talking here about ‘followers’ on the internet, on Twitter or Instagram. People put up their posts and those who are interested in what they have to say will get a notification and will be able to […]

Sometimes in our thanksgiving journey, we just have to circle back to some very basic truths, like the fact that to be grateful and express it is a very profound gift that God has given us as human beings. It is a huge antidote to the potential that we have to, easily and quite naturally, […]