The radio is on in the background as I write, reporting that the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are converging on Iraq’s second city, Mosul. It is estimated that 6000 ISIL fighters are trying to hide amongst the 1 million civilians including hundreds of thousand of children. As I listen to the reporting, […]

JOSEPH Man of Faith Looking a bit care worn   I have just come down from the manse loft after retrieving the Nativity Set and two thoughts occur to me. The first is, what a tip it is up there and how Sam and I need to get our act together and do some sorting […]

Advent Reflections 2016  Faithfulness: Know you are Welcome The Lord himself with give you a sign: A virgin will conceive and bear a son, and name him “Emmanuel.” Isaiah 7: 14   When we read the newspaper or listen to the news, it can sometimes feel that God has abandoned us, forsaken us, but God […]

Advent Reflections 2016: Peace ‘You shall be my people, and I shall be your God.’ Jeremiah 30: 22 I was talking to a man the other month, who said that he had undertaken an endevour to read the whole of the Old Testament. Thinking of him reciting all the laws of Deuteronomy, and genealogies in […]