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Passion Sunday, falling two weeks before Easter Sunday, draws our minds ever closer to the central fact of our faith. It points us to the...

Put on Love (Colossians 3:14) How much thought do you give to the clothes you wear? Do you just pull out the first shirt that comes from...

The Sundays of Lent are classed as feast days, so offer a chance to break from penitential rigours of the season, but the middle Sunday...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. On this day, we begin our long period of preparation for Easter. The forty days of Lent have...

Safeguarding. I must be honest: safeguarding is not a word that has featured overmuch in the course of my ministry. When I was at...

A Light to Lighten the Gentiles..... The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (which falls on 2nd February), is a turning point in the...

‘Make the most of the next six weeks’, said my first vicar when I went to the 60th anniversary of his ordination, six weeks before my own...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity always falls towards the end of January. (It is held in the last days of January to coincide with...

Memories of Christmas all too quickly fade into the background, and by the Feast of the Epiphany, most people are ready to tidy up their...

It may come as a surprise to discover that Christmas did not exist for the first three centuries of the Christian era. The great feast of...

O Come, O come Emmanuel. So begins one of the great Advent carols that often begins our Christmas celebrations. Each verse adds another...

December 6th is the feast day of St Nicholas. Nicholas was the bishop of the Mediterranean city of Myra, in modern day Turkey. He was...

The season of Advent marks the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent literally means ‘Coming’, as we look for the coming of God amongst...

At last! I’ve tested positive for covid! It’s taken nearly three years, and just about everyone I know has succumbed to the virus at some...

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month….. why is Remembrance Sunday, or Armistice Day still so important? Of course,...

BIBLE SUNDAY The Bible is the authoritative book of the Christian faith. Whilst other books and other authors may be read, quoted and...

Read: Acts 6: 1 – 7 I once had the privilege of spending a day at Lord’s Cricket Ground, watching a Test Match. As a fast bowler comes...

LUKE 13:6-9 ONE MORE CHANCE Jesus was a first-class storyteller. Still today, his stories come across with freshness and...