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Ever wonder what God does up there in heaven?  Some of us imagine God the Father resting on a great gold throne, surrounded by angels dressed in white, eternally playing on harps.  And beyond them are millions of people, standing about.  After all, as one hymn (Jerusalem, my happy home) puts it:  where ‘congregations ne’er...

The God of life with guarding hold you, The loving Christ with guarding fold you, The Holy Spirit, guarding, mould you, Each night of life to aid, enfold you Each day and night of life uphold you. From Poems of the Western Highlanders

A line in the Lord’s Prayer asks God to ‘Give us this day our daily bread’. When we say that line, we’re asking God to provide the basic things in life that keep us healthy and happy. It can start with the food we need to eat each day, but for lots of different reasons,...

Sir Walter Raleigh died 400 years ago, on 29th Oct 1618. The famous English adventurer, writer, poet and courtier was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. The youngest of five sons in a devout Protestant family from Devon, he had faced persecution under Queen Mary. As a result, he developed a life-long hatred for Roman...

When you are hurt and in need, to whom do you go? If you are blessed, you will know someone who is full of kindness and sympathy, and to whom you can turn with your troubles. It seems that Joseph (Gen.40) in the Bible was like that.  He was in an Egyptian prison, his feet...

By Juliet David & Emiliano Migliardo, Lion Children’s Books, £6.99 Eight Bible stories are depicted in intense colour and comic, cartoony illustrations. There is a sentence or two explaining the scene at the top, and then details to spot, mistakes to find and questions to answer along the sides of the picture. Was there really...

You’re the Alpha and Omega The beginning and the end. The God in whom we place our trust And utterly depend. You’re the One who’s all forgiving And kind and just and true, So merciful and powerful – Who can compare with You? You are mighty and majestic Yet gentle as a dove, Delighting in...

Some parents aren’t sure quite what to feel about Hallowe’en – is it just harmless fun, or are there aspects of it that don’t fit in with how we want to see the world? A child’s christening service is very honest about the reality of good and evil, and Hallowe’en can be a good time...

Odran is a suitable saint to remember as Halloween approaches, for his story involves the spirit world. British by birth, Odran (died c. 563) was one of Columba’s first companions on Iona.  Sadly, he died not long after his arrival on the island.  But Columba found comfort, for in a vision he saw Odran’s soul...

I’ve recently been sorting through some family photographs. What struck me was how easy it was to date them by what people were wearing. My grandmother always wore black, with a crinoline blouse, and had her hair in a bun. I picked up a photo of her in 1945. She looked, to a modern eye,...

Jude the apostle and martyr (1st century) warns us in his epistle that not all ‘evil’ comes in the form of obvious ghosties and ghoulies.  He writes instead to warn the Christians of the greater danger of people who infect others with heresy and moral failure.  He writes that they are nothing more than …. ...

Lord, how can I endure this life of sorrow, unless You strengthen me with Your mercy and grace?  Do not turn Your face from me.  Do not withdraw Your consolation from me, lest my soul becomes like a waterless desert.  Teach me, O Lord, to do Your will, and to live humbly.  You alone know...