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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....

Editor:  looking forward through Lent to Palm Sunday and Easter … Good Friday, in a way…is not Good Friday at all. It is Black Friday – a very Black Friday. It is Good Friday only in the sense that we know Easter will follow.  – J E Lantz He has outsoared the shadow of our...

Editor:  With Lent in mind, we offer quotes that focus on contemplation, prayer, and self-assessment. The need of the world is to listen to God. – Albert Einstein A religion that does not begin with repentance is certain to end there – perhaps too late. – Anon  Time spent on the knees in prayer will...