On Hold Most of us will have had the experience of making a ‘phone call where you are put on hold. A voice says ‘Thank you for phoning your call…
When we don’t understand I once asked a friend how to do a repair to something that was wrong with my car. It’s easy he said and rattled off the…
There are times when bad things seem to be all around us and we can get anxious that they might happen to us. Then what? There are times when the…
This week we are thinking about prejudice. All around us there are people who are prejudiced against Jesus, and this means that there is also prejudice against the church.Yet we…
An enemy within?The walls were completed around Jerusalem. The community of God’s people now had a good defence against attack from outside enemies. But Nehemiah and Ezra knew that an…
The parable of the weeds. Good and evil grow together; how do we deal with that?
The world can seem in a mess. Fighting and wars, crime and disease. The planet is not faring well with the climate in chaos and many animals facing extinction. But…