Blue Monday

I always find January difficult. There seems to be such a long build up to Christmas, and then before you know it the new year is here! And the new year so often brings with it its own problems, after the artificial brightness of winter festivities is over, there often follows the cold light of

Let there be light

In the beginningProbably some of the easiest words to recall from the Bible are the opening verses in Genesis 1, where an account of God’s creative power are laid out. In verse 3, God’s first recorded words appear: Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. Genesis 1:3 The theme of light

What’s in a name?

What’s in a name? The Bible is full of names, many of which are unusual to us in our modern times and “western” society. Sometimes we are given nicknames, and sometimes those we’d rather not have! Sometimes they “become who we are”. In one of the later books of the New Testament, we find “Philemon,”

Rest

I am dreadful at resting. I can sit in front of a television for hours on end – but I don’t actually give myself rest; give my mind rest from the troubles of the day. I am currently on holiday with my family, and we promised ourselves a proper rest after a busy period recently.

The return of Christ

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. Matthew 25v13

Delight in the LORD

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams

Darkness and Light

At this time of year – November, after the clocks have gone back, when it’s getting colder and as we’re rapidly heading into winter – there tends to be 2 different reactions we can have. The pessimistic one is to be frustrated at the lack of light and the loss of the warmth of summer,