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18th February, 2021 If you’ve experienced abuse you know that it’s not limited to violence or to single incidents but follows a pattern of coercion and control. When I was with my abuser, I experienced abuse under all the following headings. When I worked with other women who had been abused these categories were familiar …
27th August 2017 To the single Christian; You’re not unloved. Make your world bigger. So you don’t have a husband. A fallible human being. Make your world bigger. So you don’t get to build your life around ‘the one’ Make your world bigger So you don’t get to love and be loved by one special …
25th January 2022. John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.” (Luke 3:11)I wonder sometimes what the church would look like if it took the same attitude to money as it does to sex.Just before the pandemic the House …
17th Jan 2023/ 19 May 2019 Yesterday was Blue Monday- supposedly the most miserable day of the year. We’re still deep in the middle of winter, nights are still dark and cold, but Christmas is over and the bills from it may be piling up. So today I thought I’d share this poem from May …
16th July 2021 God designed and created our bodies.God created all those funny shaped noses and big ears and wobbly bellies and weird shaped feet that smell a bit funny.God designed me to be four foot ten (and a half) maybe they designed you to be six foot seven.God probably likes that awful red flush …
24th March 2019 Power, it’s all about Power. In the beginning God gave us power. He gave us power over ‘the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, over livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ He gave us power so that we would …
15th April 2019 Isaiah 1:16-17 “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widows cause.” It’s not rocket science is it. Even Bill Esquire Prescott and Ted Theodore Logan …
24th December 2021 I read an article last week, for advent, asking the question: “Does the bible really claim that Mary was a virgin?” and after reading the article I read the comments. Never. Read. The. Comments. It wasn’t long before cries of “heretic” and “false teacher were being slung across the data stream. The …
12th November 2018 I found myself looking around church during one of the hymns on Sunday.On the row in front of me was an old woman, too frail to stand for the hymns but nevertheless there, worshipping in her seat.Across the aisle a mother stood cradling her baby, I couldn’t help but smile watching her …
15th July 2018. God became most real to me when I wasn’t really sure I believed in him anymore. I’d felt this niggling over the years, every so often I’d be in church, or in my bible, or otherwise engaged in listening to God and I’d get the feeling I was supposed to end my …