Broken
“BANG, SMASH” You look around and your heart sinks as you see the jar that was previously standing proudly on …
“BANG, SMASH” You look around and your heart sinks as you see the jar that was previously standing proudly on …
Last week I had the honour of being featured on the website threads. Threads is a blogging website that has …
I was recently reminded how hard we try to be accepted by society. I also know personally that it can, …
This is a guest post from Imogen. Imogen is at the youth group at Scarborough Christian Fellowship and this is …
“Seems you created your own illusion, fuelled by an image of me” The above are lyrics to a song by …
“Love it will not betray you, dismay you or enslave you. It will set you free. Be more like the …
I often struggle to remember my dreams for very long after waking up unless the dream was particularly eventful or …
The post today is a guest post from a new writer. Kevin heads the men’s ministry at Hereford Baptist Church …
My Aunty Beryl is eighty-five years old. She has Alzheimer’s Disease and has to be cared for in a home. …
Today we have a new writer but a familiar face. Anyone who has followed the blog from the start may remember …
My hairdresser is a special young woman. I do not have to tell her how to cut my hair. She …
At 07.30 hours on 14 July 2012 various youth pastors/leaders and young people from across Herefordshire were loading vehicles in …
Under Pressure? Ever been low? It wasn’t something that ever bothered me. I knew about depression, having seen other people …
Ebs or Ebbs? The title of this blog is important. Although it is a play on words associated with the …
I get a huge amount of pleasure from watching the birds feed in my garden. I put food and water …
Walking and Talking I spent a full day this week in the sole company of my eldest son, Nick. It …
I am passing time in an airport lounge in Oslo. There are various conversations going on around me, some of …
I remember saving up for holidays when I was little. I also remember blowing my entire holiday savings on the …
When I was a child very few people had telephones. By the time I got married in 1979 it was …
I spent six years of my life at Castel School in Guernsey. The first photograph shows how the school looks …
I wrote the following poem on the ‘graveyard’ watch (00.00 – 04.00) when I was a young second mate in …
Despite writing two blogs about jigsaw puzzles (God’s Big Jigsaw Puzzle and The Missing Piece) I have to admit that I really …
I consider life to be a jigsaw (The Missing Piece). I don’t have the box to the jigsaw so I …
My sixteen-year old daughter Beth has recently completed a training course to qualify as a football (soccer) referee. Before she …
As a child I can remember exclaiming, “it’s not fair!” on many occasions and for many different reasons. I may …
Do you really trust God implicitly? Could you be as bold as King Jehoshaphat who called the nation of Judah …
In 1904 revival transformed Wales. In the space of one year more than 100,000 people surrendered their lives to Jesus …
So I sat there, not sure about the content, not sure about the approach I was going to take, feeling a bit embarrassed about my oversight and concerned that I was failing in responsibilities to God and everyone who had showed up on a cold night in January. Then before the sermon we sang ‘When I Survey the Wondrous Cross’ – a classic and well loved hymn that I have been singing since I’ve been able to read. All of a sudden all my insecurities, worries and hopelessness were put into perspective,
‘Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were an offering far too small;
love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.’
It is important to realise and understand how special we are to God. Failure to do so limits and constrains us, and may restrict God’s ability to achieve His plans for us.
I was thinking about prayer this evening. A lot of us have probably been told that we shouldn’t ask God …
I do not like jigsaw puzzles. I can usually manage the corners and edge pieces but after that I get …