Today let’s have a look at Mary and Martha. Two beautiful ladies, very different to each other, but both very much loved by the Lord. Mary is renowned for anointing the Lord’s feet with her perfume and then wiping them with her hair, and she was also the sister who was captivated by Jesus teaching, […]

This morning I was listening to that wonderful hymn of Charles Wesley’s, ‘And can it be’, and I heard again, but as if for the first time, that wonderful line He ‘emptied Himself of all but love, and bled for Adam’s helpless race’. I felt so moved by that line, and it made me think […]

Psalm 78 is a long one, but like quite a few psalms it has some important things to say about thanksgiving and our life and walk with the Lord. In my bible the heading says ‘God’s guidance of His people in spite of their unfaithfulness.’  In its 72 verses it does indeed detail God’s peoples’ […]

I woke up this morning with one or two potentially ‘heavy’ things weighing on my mind and then, having got my mug of tea, I sat down to watch the dawn. (Not the sunrise, the dawn.) I knew it was coming because of the time, and the light that was beginning to fill the sky. […]

Recently (Blog No. 302) we reflected that, using a new, clean lens, we could see the ten commandments in the Old Testament as a mighty manifesto, saying a gigantic ‘Yes’  to God’s very best for happy, healthy lives for us. We discovered afresh that saying ‘No’ to things that have negative effects on us is […]

When it comes to ‘seeing’ ourselves the way that God sees us, there is probably no more important scripture for our generation than Romans 8:31-39. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Paul declares that in everything that befalls him, trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger or the sword, he and his fellow Christians are ‘more than […]

Looking again at those words, ‘With you is the fountain of Life; in your light do we see light.’ Psalm 36:9, I am thinking that there is probably no more important aspect of our lives where we need to ‘see’ with God’s light, than in how we see ourselves now that we are ‘new creatures […]

If the writer of Psalm 73 tells us that coming into the sanctuary, drawing close to God, is the answer to our perplexities with God’s ways, then Psalm 34 tells us that when we do that, when we come close to God, people notice. But let’s track back a bit. When we are spiritually troubled, […]

I believe that Psalm 73 is a wonderfully helpful Psalm for our lives today. In some ways it is a contrast to the verses from Psalm 36, on which we reflected yesterday, but in its conclusions it speaks to us further about staying close to the Lord. I expect you have read it before, but […]

It’s that time of year again when we lose so many hours of natural light and then, suddenly (although November is still too early for many of us!!), we begin to see many different kinds of light springing up all around us. Christmas lights now come as a welcome contrast to the decorations of Halloween […]