Not surprisingly, given my confession yesterday about my aversion to the mention of ‘warfare’, another bible passage that I did not enjoy reading was Ephesians 6:10-16. Paul’s exhortation to ‘put on the whole armour of God’. It generated some anxiety in my heart that a) I was walking around without my armour and was therefore […]

I have always loved Psalm 18, that is to say certain verses of Psalm 18, particularly verses 30 -33, ‘It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to stand on the heights’. I’ve never been so keen […]

I was thinking today about ‘joy’.  About what an amazing thing it is, and what an incredible gift God has given us in our ability to experience ‘joy’.  With the benefit of modern neurological science we know that joy is not just an emotion, but that when we experience joy there is a physiological change […]

One of things that Birthdays bring to the forefront of my mind is ‘family’. So the thing that I want to especially give thanks for today is family. Family is Gods’ idea and His plan that we wouldn’t just be a collection of random individuals living on the earth, born and then left to make […]

I’m having a day off today, it’s my Birthday. That’s not going to be a day off from ‘Thanksgiving’, but from writing. However I do just want to write out the words of one hymn that I feel is so true and expresses my heart today. Lord for the years your hand has kept and […]

Today I believe the Lord is wanting to speak to us and remind us that, He not only loves us when we are doing well, but that His love and care are powerfully there for us when we make mistakes and mess up. In the world it is quite common, when taking up a new […]

Yesterday we spoke of the benefits of giving thanks in order to slow ourselves down so that we can enjoy each moment and commune with the Lord and hear His voice. The ‘thanksgiving’ that slows us down and enables us to appreciate the things that are all around us, to savour the things that our […]

Following on from yesterdays thoughts about the incredible gift our five senses are to us, it seems appropriate that today we consider the power of thanksgiving to help us ‘pause’ in life in order to use those five senses well. Using thanksgiving to slow ourselves down in order to listen, look, savour a moment or […]

Today, and it must be partly because spring is definitely in the air, our thanksgiving just has to be for the wonderful way that God has made us. In particular for the fact that He has created us with our five senses with which to enjoy His wonderful creation, the incredible kaleidoscope of sights, sounds […]

Yesterday we were thinking about how our thanksgiving can change the atmosphere around us and at the same time bless and encourag our brothers and sisters. Today we look at another aspect of thanksgiving and its power to change atmospheres. Jesus told His disciples ‘You are the light of the world’,….’let your light shine before […]