Category: Thoughts

The ‘Word of the Year’ for 2024 was ‘manifest’, according to the Cambridge Dictionary. Manifest, meaning, “to show something clearly through signs or actions” is now known as, “to imagine achieving something you want, in the belief doing so will make it more likely to happen”. The use of language and its meaning does change through time, but to suggest...

This past week has brought a new American President to power. Donald Trump certainly has provoked, and I suspect will continue to provoke, controversy for many observers in his own country and overseas. In a recent BBC radio interview, Franklin Graham (son of the late Billy Graham, and who was involved in the President’s inauguration ceremony on 20th January) was...

I wonder what we value in life? Reports this week are that Manchester City player, Erla Haaland has signed a 9 year contract extension, paying him £0.5m a week (yes a week!). I’m not sure how someone is able to use that amount of money, or even appreciate it, but whatever the riches on earth, I am reminded that no...

The recent weather in the UK pales into insignificance compared to the extremes happening in other parts of the world such as the wildfires in Los Angeles. How often do we just focus on ourselves and forget the situations and circumstances faced by others, whatever people’s backgrounds, wealth or fame? The Bible relates that this was true of Jesus’ disciples...

Today is Sunday 5th January, 2025. The first few days of any New Year is often a time of resolutions, planning, anticipation, resettling family relationships and/or adjusting to a more healthy lifestyle with changes to diets and exercise regimes. For a variety of reasons however, many of our “best laid plans” made at the beginning of January fail to continue...

As we reach the last Sunday of 2024, we will all look back with different thoughts and emotions. Some will look back with fond/happy memories, for others it will be a year they would prefer to forget! As we look towards 2025, we don’t yet know what opportunities and challenges there will be for us, whether individually or as a...

At a time where many around the world remember Jesus’ birth, it’s easy to get too involved with all the preparations, celebrations and family gatherings, losing sight of the ‘reason for the season’. The Bible teaches that Jesus will come a second time and warns people to be prepared: “keep watch, because you do not know the day or the...