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The writer Gary Chapman describes the 5 ‘love languages’ as words of encouragement, quality time, gifts, acts of service and touch. Do you have a preferred ‘language of love’? With the approach of St Valentines’ Day, let’s ask: what is God’s love language? ‘Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with...

In this month, when we celebrate St Valentine’s Day, this poignant question is one many people will be asking, especially the young and hopeful. Perhaps you remember these words from the beautiful song in Lionel Bart’s musical, Oliver? The young street boy Oliver Twist sings plaintively of his longing to find ‘someone who I can...

If you look up ‘marriage’ in the Penguin Book of Modern Humorous Quotations, you will find that Marriage sits between The Mafia and Martyrdom!   Be that as it may, here are some thoughts for all those who are in love and getting married soon. Your wedding day is not an arrival.  It is the start...

I was in a discussion recently as to whether or not a Christian can have doubts. The father in Mark’s story (9:17-27) speaks for many people. He knew that Jesus could heal his son, but just wasn’t quite sure if He would. Doubt comes in many forms. It may be intellectual, a form of wrestling...

Lent is a time to take stock of ourselves spiritually.  This includes setting aside extra time for prayer.  Here are some helpful things to remember as you settle down to it: People have been praying since Adam had a grandson named Enosh.  The Bible tells us (Genesis 4:26) that it was during his days when...

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Mary Slessor was an indomitable Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Calabar, Nigeria in late Victorian times.  She not only evangelised three tribes there, but also stopped the widespread practise of killing twins at birth.  Her life made a tremendous difference for good to thousands of people. Concerned about the purposeless lives of some women back in...

The National Trust was founded in January 1895, 125 years ago, to ‘promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the nation of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest and as regards lands for their natural aspect features, animal and plant life.’ This concern for our world raises an important question...

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Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. One of the disturbing questions that arises from the horrors of the Holocaust is ‘where was God when the six million died?’ In his moving memoir, ‘Night,’ Eli Wiesel tells the story of an execution that the...

The National Trust was founded in January 1895, 125 years ago, to ‘promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the nation of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest and as regards lands for their natural aspect features, animal and plant life.’ This concern for our world raises an important question...

January gets its name from the Roman god Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions, of gates and doorways. Traditionally Janus had two faces, one looking to the past and one to the future. It reminds us that as we start a new year we can look back to the past with gratitude and to...