The Daily Telegraph recently commissioned a Gallup survey that concluded: “British people are filled with unprecedented gloom about virtually every aspect of life. They are far more despondent than a generation ago about standards of health, knowledge, honesty and behaviour.” Nobody wants to be gloomy do they? The passage we looked at last Sunday from […]

On Easter day morning we focussed on Jesus’ resurrection. On Easter day evening we focussed on the disciples’ reaction to this momentous event by looking at the Emmaus Road passage from Luke 24: 13-31. Even before the Easter events Jesus had taught his disciples what would happen; for example in Luke 18:31-34 Jesus had predicted […]

In the Polish town of Kolbuszowa the town crest shows the Christian cross and Jewish star of David; to recognise the historic 50/50 split between Jews and native Poles. Having lost so many of the Jewish population in the second world war the crest remains as a symbol of hope following tragedy and potential of […]

I have been visiting the various house-groups over the last nine months and was at the Hardyman’s this week. We briefly raised the interesting question of how we best hear God. Is it by “retreating” from our normal lives to go on a retreat; or in the everyday of our normal lives? Last week I […]