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Stone-throwing Prayer for help and healing Saul and David The Table Hunger for God ** Stone-throwing (John 8:1-11) A familiar scene … Crowds of people with strong views, clamouring, demanding their way, intolerant of others who made different mistakes, different choices. A raucous, intimidating, egocentric baying for action. A familiar scene… Where is the love?...

The long list of television programmes concerned with renovating, moving home, and celebrity homes shows how interested we are in other people’s homes, and how they live. The style and furnishings of the buildings vary considerably, and you can find out a great deal about the person by looking at what they have on display...

When I was nearly three, I knocked a bucket of tadpoles all over the patio. Those unfortunate creatures must have been collected to educate my brother and I on where frogs came from, but a toddler can’t just stand by and watch. Can I see up close? Or maybe I was ‘helpfully’ moving it to...

Rupert is the saint for you if you like The Sound of Music – or salt with your food! Rupert (d c 710) was bishop of Worms and Salzburg, and it was he who founded the great monastery of St Peter in Salzburg in the eighth century, thus firmly establishing Christianity in that city.  True,...

There are some people who inspire you to be all you can as a Christian.  When you meet one of these, it is a good idea to stay near them, and learn all you can from them.  We are affected by the people whom we spend time with – pray that you will meet people...

The numbers of churchgoers in England who are under 45 will have shrunk from 44% in 2010 to 38% this year, 2020, and down to 31% by 2030, if present trends continue. In England in 2005, 39% of churches had no-one attending under 11 years of age, 49% no-one attending between the ages of 11...

Ten years ago, too many children’s lunch boxes contained processed ham sandwiches and packets of crisps.  Sadly, today, little has changed. A recent study at Leeds University has found that the majority of lunchboxes still fall well below nutritional standards. Only one in five include any vegetables or salad.  Less than one per cent have...

What plans do you have for your garden this year?  Probably you will slow down on the digging, and maybe try making some mud pies by your new bee hotel instead.  These are among the predictions of The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). The RHS reports a growing desire among gardeners to keep their soil healthy...

A staggering 1.25 million people in the UK are living with an eating disorder.  And every one of them is affecting other people by that disorder.  In fact, it is reckoned that as many as five million of us in the UK are struggling to help someone whom we care about, who has an eating...

Is there something down at, say, B&Q, which reminds your friends of you?   John Climacus (d 649) had a thing about ladders.  He was a monk in Palestine who was only seen out at the weekends (at church, not B&Q); during the week he prayed and wrote in solitude.  He wrote The Ladder to Paradise,...

This year, you can either buy special gifts for your mother from Mothers’ Union, or else remember your mother by sending a gift to Mothers Union to help empower women around the world.  More details at:  https://www.mothersunion.org/mothering-sunday-resources

The Lord is my Shepherd – THAT’S RELATIONSHIP! I shall not want – THAT’S SUPPLY! He maketh me to lie down in green pastures – THAT’S REST! He leadeth me beside still waters – THAT’S REFRESHMENT! He restoreth my soul – THAT’S HEALING! He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness – THAT’S GUIDANCE! For...