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With Christmas in mind… This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass window’s hue, A Baby in an ox’s stall. John Betjeman’s ‘Christmas’ Filling the world, He lies in a manger!  Augustine The incarnation of Christ is the clearest affirmation of the truth that man is created in the image of God.  Lawrence...

  With Remembrance Day in mind… They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. – Isaiah 2.4  Fine weapons are none the less ill-omened things….  For to think them lovely means to delight in them, and...

Editor: Observations on our Christian life Affliction is God’s shepherd dog to drive us back to the fold. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. The wages of sin is death.  So, repent before payday. Exercise daily – walk with the Lord. We don’t change God’s message – His message changes us. To get...

September means back to school time…. September can also include Back to Church Sunday Harvest-time – a time for gratitude and giving Some spiritual encouragement for your readers For many people, September means going back into a challenging situation… Some miscellaneous observations on life ** September means back to school time…. Anyone who stops learning...

Living in chaos? Perhaps this summer you have temporarily escaped from a bad situation in your daily life, and are dreading going back…   There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot, from that situation, create something that is surpassingly good.  He did it at creation.  He did it at the cross.  He is doing...

Editor:  With the ending of the school year, many of us face big changes Keep praying but be thankful that God’s answers are wiser than your prayers! – William Culbertson First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus I was trained from the beginning to...

With Trinity Sunday in mind: How can God be One and Three at the same time?   Perhaps the Father is like the sun in the sky – dazzling in majesty and glory, whose light, Jesus Christ, illumines all mankind; and whose invisible warmth, the Holy Spirit, brings us to life.  Sun, light and warmth –...

30th May is Ascension Day…. Hail the day that sees him rise To his throne above the skies; Christ, a while to mortals given, Re-ascends his native heaven. Charles Wesley Astronauts sink into insignificance beside this ascension! Vance Havner Christ was taken up into heaven, not to enjoy blessed rest at a distance from us,...

With Easter in mind… With our Christian faith in mind…  Miscellaneous observations on daily life   With Easter in mind… Who delivered up Jesus to die?  Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; but the Father, for love! – Octavious Winslow The world cannot bury Christ.  The earth is...

With Lent in mind… There is no higher priority in the believer’s life than to delight himself in the love of Christ. Maurice Roberts Of all the things that will surprise us in the Resurrection morning, this I believe, will surprise us most: that we did not love Christ more before we died.   J C...

With Valentine’s Day and Love in mind: It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when he loves. – Bulwer Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterward. – Madame Scuderi Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. – E F J von Munch-Bellinghausen...

With New Year resolutions in mind: Great ideas need landing gears as well as wings. C D Jackson What is the use of travelling at a fast speed when you are going in the wrong direction? Bernhard Langer Most of us would get along well if we used the advice we give to others. Anon...