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We are very aware of how special the arrival of a new baby is to the family! This Christmas we celebrate again God’s gift of Jesus: ‘Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!’ (2 Corinthians 9:15). What can we say about this baby? He is God Himself:               ...

‘Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.’ (Isaiah 7:14) This promise to King Ahaz in eighth century Judah is fulfilled in the coming of Jesus at the first Christmas (Matthew 1:23). However, the promise of ‘God with Us’...

A friend of mine was diagnosed recently with breast cancer. A bright, vivacious lady in her fifties, she took the devastating diagnosis really well, but when the time came for her mastectomy, she understandably began to feel very nervous. Sitting with her husband in the hospital cubicle awaiting the operation she experienced for the first...

We all like a good story. When God wanted to grab our attention, He gave us a book of stories. The Bible is full of God’s encounters with people.  At Christmas, we remember the story of Jesus born in Bethlehem. But this story begins back in Genesis and as we go through the Old Testament...

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son…… (Galatians 4:4) Have you ever used one of those old-fashioned glass ‘egg-timers’?  Thousands of sand grains sink down from the wide top of the glass until they trickle through the tapered centre, only to fill the bottom as the glass widens out once more....

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...