Category: Pastor’s Blog
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Lifeguards
Dear Friends, I read that ahead of this year’s expected and exceptional summer season, The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is asking for more recruits to consider wearing the red and […]
Shadowing our Saviour
Dear Friends, Many people wake up at the start of a New Year wanting to be someone they’re not. And certainly there are no shortages of opportunities being promised to […]
Christmas Forever
Dear Friends, When you are a child Christmas appears to take FOREVER to arrive. We count it down by sleeps but it still takes its time. When you are […]
Certainty in uncertain times
Dear Friends, I am flying off to the Ukraine this October and let’s face it news from there is seldom good, with the threat of Russian invasion imminent at […]
SHRINKFLATION
Dear Friends, According to a report I read over the summer something called SHRINKFLATION has been taking place in our shops almost undetected since 2012. The shocking scale of which […]
Perseverance for the new year
I don’t know if a NEW YEAR delights you with all its natural promise of a fresh start, or defeats you with the speed in which heartfelt resolutions can be broken as OLD habits once again take hold and trump the desire to do better. In a boxing match of course, when a fighter is too beat up to continue, they always have the option of throwing in the towel
Forgetting what is behind
NOVEMBER is remember month. First there is Guy Fawkes. “Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot. We see no reason why gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot!” Then six days later there is Armistice Day, when we wear our poppies and lay our wreaths “lest we forget” those who for our tomorrow gave their today. Some things we truly need to remember so we are not condemned to repeat the same mistakes of yesterday, but other things we would do well to forget in order to move on and make the most of today.
The step from ordinary to extraordinary
Dear Friends, According to the Daily Telegraph the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick rates very high as one of the ten worst days out in Britain. “It’s like OCTOBER, just […]