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With Christmas in mind…. What do you call a cat in the desert?  Sandy Claws. What goes oh oh oh? Santa walking backwards. What did the dog get for Christmas?  A mobile bone. Who delivers presents to sharks at Christmas?  Santa Jaws. What did Adam say in the Garden of Eden on December 24? It’s...

If you are looking to splash around a vast amount of money this Christmas, why not contact The Royal Mint?  It has just launched Britain’s most expensive ever Christmas crackers – which include a solid gold bar and gold diamond necklace. A pack of six of the crackers will set you back £5000, but at...

Our high streets are filling up with takeaways.  Fast-food outlets have risen by a third in less than a decade, at the same time as hundreds of shops are closing every year. So says the Office for National Statistics. The figures reveal that high streets now have the highest concentration of fast-food outlets since 2010. ...

From The Rectory, St James the Least My dear Nephew Darren It really is time to get some new figures for the crib. After a series of accidents over the years, we are now down to two wise men, two shepherds, and one three-legged sheep that only remains upright if it is leaning against a...

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Remembering the end of World War One From the Vicar Psalm 139 – God knows you better than you know yourself The Way I See It – the future in safe hands? Weak yet strong The Soldier’s Prayer Where is your life journey taking you? ** Editor:  Paul Hardingham considers war and peace. Remembering the...

This year Remembrance Sunday (11th November) marks the centenary of the end of World War One. Of the 65 million men who were mobilized, 8.5 million were killed and a further 21 million wounded. Wilfred Owen wrote of those ‘who die as cattle.’ How should we celebrate this anniversary? In remembering the Armistice, our response...

This year Remembrance Sunday (11th November) marks the centenary of the end of World War One. Of the 65 million men who were mobilized, 8.5 million were killed and a further 21 million wounded. How should we celebrate this anniversary? In remembering the armistice, our response should be to desire Micah’s vision of universal peace...

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space in 1961, reportedly said ‘I looked and looked but I didn’t see God.’ Psalm 139 sees things from a very different perspective, in which God can be found everywhere in the universe. God is all Knowing: ‘You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.’ (v1). God knows...

The Advent calendars, complete with chocolate, are already in the shops. The season actually begins at the end of this month, four weeks when Christians are meant to think seriously about the future. It’s always been a human dilemma. We know a lot about the past – ours and the history of our race. We...

Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 Natural thinking values strength and despises...

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve, I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health, that I might do greater things, I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that I might be happy, I was given poverty, that I...