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You and your friends know where you live, but could a 999 crew find you? Paramedics warn that too many people do not make their house numbers clear.  That means paramedics are wasting valuable time looking for clues as to which house is which, while shrubs and rubbish bins often obscure the numbers. In an...

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...

The Most Reverend Janani Luwum (d 1977) was the sitting Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi and Boga Zaire when 35 years ago this month he was murdered by the dictator Idi Amin.   At the time the Church in Uganda was on the verge of centennial celebrations of its birth through the seed of the...

Here’s some news to make you itch: it seems that fleas are infesting British homes.  The national flea population is believed to be on the rise. A spokeswoman for the British Pest Control Association said: “Our industry is being more conscious of the chemicals used, so there is a chance that new products are not...

Did you have a miserable childhood?  Were your parents more absorbed in themselves than in you?   Later, looking for love, did you fall for the wrong man?  Perhaps you now have children of your own, and struggle to raise them.   If you feel your life has been ‘wrong-footed’ from the start, and that there is...

Do you have teenagers?  What are they doing at the moment?  Chances are, they are glued to their phone.  The World Health Organisation has warned that some 80 per cent of teenagers in Britain do not take enough exercise, and that a couch-potato lifestyle has become their norm. Girls are even less active than boys,...

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...

Polycarp (c. 69 – c. 155) was one of the most important Christians in Roman Asia in the mid-2nd century, because of his link between the time of the Apostles and the earliest Christian Fathers.  This disciple of John the Apostle became bishop of Smyrna and defended orthodox Christian belief against the heresies of Marcion...

Have you ever been in the position where someone is desperately needed – and you fit the bill perfectly?   It is almost as if all your miscellaneous qualifications that never made much sense before now make PERFECT sense.  And you sense that you have been chosen by God for the task…. If so, then Matthias...

They may be asleep at the moment, but tortoises are not the stay-at-homes couch potatoes that you may think they are.  In fact, so many have been leaving their homes to go on walk-about, that now the RSPCA is advising that they be microchipped. The charity rescued almost 1,000 tortoises last year. Experts advise that...

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Have you ever been in the position where someone is desperately needed – and you fit the bill perfectly?   It is almost as if all your miscellaneous qualifications that never made much sense before now make PERFECT sense.  And you sense that you have been chosen by God for the task…. If so, then Matthias...