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Inspirational and devotional articles to encourage your readers in their faith.
- ‘Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever’ (Westminster Confession). We are created to worship, but who or what will we worship? Psalm 95 invites us to worship God and to engage with His presence and power. Rejoicing in God (1-5): ‘Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord.’ (v1)....Psalm 95’s wise words on worship
- To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy — to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude v 24-25 When the weather...No need to fall
- Recently the weather men and women have taken to talking about ‘organised’ rain to be expected following drizzle on western parts. It’s nonsense, of course. Rain isn’t ‘organised’, it isn’t ‘tame’. Like all our weather it happens because of vast natural laws of nature, and there’s precious little we can do about it. Pleasant summer...Organised rain?
- About 50 years ago I was asked by our vicar to join a small team of volunteers who would meet a young man at the tube station and see him safely past the betting shop on his way home. He had just come out of prison. His offences had all stemmed from his addiction to...Then the fun stops
- At the flick of a switch or a press of a button we can illuminate our homes with all kinds of gadgets. City life has street lights everywhere and if we need a light for dark places we can use a torch. Life for people in Bible days must have been so different. The darkness...Shine, Jesus, shine
- Wise Men Still Seek Him From the Vicar That They Be One 2019: Is it even possible to make a new start? What a legacy! His grace really is sufficient Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Ten things God won’t ask you when you die ** Editor: The Rev Paul Hardingham considers...Looking at God (all articles) in January 2019
- ‘A cold coming we had of it. Just the worst time of the year. For a journey and such a long journey.’ (‘Journey of the Magi’, T.S. Eliot). In this poem, T.S. Eliot imagines the journey of the Magi to worship Jesus, as told in Matthew 2. This story is at the heart of our...Wise Men Still Seek Him
- ‘A cold coming we had of it. Just the worst time of the year. For a journey and such a long journey.’ (Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot). In this poem, T.S. Eliot imagines the journey of the Magi to worship Jesus, as told in Matthew 2. This story is at the heart of our...From the Vicar
- ‘My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent...‘That They Be One’ – a Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
- The Christian faith teaches that a new start is endlessly possible. It is provided by a personal encounter with the risen and living Jesus Christ. He offers us the opportunity and the resources to make a new start, despite all our circumstances or failings. The Bible records many encouraging examples of people who were able...2019: Is it even possible to make a New Start?
- The charity Oxfam recently received a legacy of £41 million following the death of business man Richard Cousins. Richard was killed in a plane crash in Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve 2017, and he died alongside his two sons, his fiancée and her daughter, and the pilot. A year before the tragic accident Richard,...What a legacy!
- ‘To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power...His grace really is sufficient