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With Holy Week and Easter in mind… The death of Christ was the most dreadful blow ever given to the empire of darkness.  – William Plumer The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet. – E Thomson The best news...

Editor:  With the patron saints of Wales (David) and Ireland (Patrick) in mind….  Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed. Do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us. –  St David I bind unto myself today...

With Valentine’s Day and love in mind…. Here’s to love – the only fire for which there is no insurance. – Anon There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. – Martin Luther ** A wider consideration of Love… Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,...

With beginning a New Year in mind…  Sin has turned the world from a paradise into a thicket; there is no getting through without being scratched.  – T Boston God loves us; not because we are loveable but because He is love; not because he needs to receive but because He delights to give. –...

Some observations on Christmas … Some thoughts to ponder at this ‘giving’ time of the year…  **  Some observations on Christmas … I heard the bells on Christmas Day their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the words repeat of peace on earth, goodwill to men! –  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  If Jesus were...

With our Christian pilgrimage in mind… With politics and the economy in mind… With war and Remembrance in mind… Miscellaneous observations on daily life ** With our Christian pilgrimage in mind…  Sometimes people think of church as being like a giant helicopter. They don’t want to get too close in case they get sucked into...

With Bible Sunday (23rd October) in mind … If you wish to know God, you must know His Word. – C H Spurgeon The Bible is meant to be bread for our daily use, not just cake for special occasions. – Unknown All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. – Abraham Lincoln...

 Observations on our Christian faith Observations on daily life **  Observations on our Christian faith To pray is to lie in the sunshine of God’s grace. – Ole Hallesby Prayer is the breath of the new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it. – Rowland Hill Freedom comes by filling your mind...

August is music festival time.  With that in mind… Music is one of the greatest gifts that God has given us: it is divine and therefore Satan is its enemy. For with its aid many dire temptations are overcome; the devil does not stay where music is. – Martin Luther Martin Luther… like Wesley, Rowland...

Miscellaneous observations on our faith… Before we can pray, ‘Thy kingdom come’, we must be willing to pray, ‘My kingdom go’. – Alan Redpath Practice is the soul of knowledge.  –Thomas Adams Let us beware of feeling that unless we personally are up and doing, the Lord is not at work.  – John Blanchard  Never...

** With Pentecost in mind:  He who does not know God the Holy Spirit cannot know God at all. – Thomas Arnold To the one who remembers the Spirit there is always a way out, even in the wilderness with the devil. – Herbert Brokering  The Holy Spirit … writes His own gospel and He...

Miscellaneous observations on our Christian pilgrimage Miscellaneous observations on life ** Miscellaneous observations on our Christian pilgrimage It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. – C H Spurgeon Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. – C H Spurgeon Comfortable truth isn’t....