Reflections

I want to share with you the story of Amy Carmichael, who as remembered by the church on Thursday. I think she’s a really inspiring person: She was the eldest of seven children in a Christian family from Northern Ireland,…

This is the reflection from the Carol Service a couple of weeks ago What sort of Christmas lights do you like? Tasteful, minimalist, warm white? Or every possible colour mix, psychedelic flashing, over the top? A street near us has…

Once when Zechariah was serving as priest before God, he was chosen to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense… Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him.  When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with…

Jesus called the disciples together and said: You know that those foreigners who call themselves kings like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over the people they rule. But don’t act like them. If you…

Then Jesus said to the disciples, Be ready for whatever comes, dressed for action and with your lamps lit, like servants who are waiting for their master to come back from a wedding feast. When he comes and knocks, they…

As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately…

Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food…

Do you know what the first word is that God says in the Bible? God says Let – ‘Let there be light’. And that’s not the only let in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. Here are some…

This is an article I’ve written for the Gloucester Citizen Do you like silence? Or do you avoid it? I’ve just been on a 3 Day silent retreat. It was in a beautiful centre in North Wales – the place…