I have only ever met one person with the name Emmanuel, a French bloke who I studied with for a while. Point is, I don’t want to write about him, I want to share something with you this Christmas about one of the most mind-blowing things the bible has to say. (In my opinion anyway!) […]
It really does not feel like it was that long ago that we were making plans for Christmas 2018, but that was last year. My wife and I had just moved across to North Wales, our son was just in the throes of getting used to his first term in school. We had lots of […]
Christmas is here! I have to confess, I have been enjoying the build up to this day for over a month, and I was often found with Wham playing from my car. ‘Last Christmas, I gave you my heart…’ Anyway, firstly let me say Happy Christmas to you. Secondly, lets read this together; The Word […]
To quote Noddy Holder ‘It’s Chriiiiiiiiiisssssstmaaaaassss’ (nearly). One of the words used at Christmas is ‘incarnate’. That basically means in human form, made flesh. The Son of God ‘incarnates’ himself as a man. He came down to earth in human form to get alongside us, share our life and experiences, so he could help / […]
No .08 The Nativity So, we are well and truly on the run up to Christmas now, maybe you have got your tree all sorted or perhaps you just don’t do the decorations routine. Maybe, when you started this series of blogs, the last thing you expected to see was ‘the nativity’ in this list […]
Last time we thought about traditions this time I am going to think a bit about routines … stuff we just do because … well … because we do. We always do. If you have been reading these blogs for a while you may remember that I like to run. I used to run a […]
As we approach Christmas, my thoughts often turn to the normal stuff we do at Christmas, what did we do last year? What did we do in 2010? 1984? What did our forebears do in 1876 .. family traditions .. love ‘em. I guess you all have some … The Royal Navy is rammed full […]
So that’s Christmas done … it’s the time for resolutions now … so easy to make, but so hard to keep for many of us! The decision to keep going with it can be hard, but we all have hard decisions to make don’t we? Which reminds me of a decision making meeting on a […]
I heard this story the other day and I really like it, (I hope it is what actually happened!!), it goes like this: In 1910, William Booth the founder of the Salvation Army, was coming towards the end of his earthly life. It was Christmas Eve, and it was to be Booths last. General Booth […]
Christmas. Not long to go now, how are your preps going? It all seems to start earlier and earlier each year, doesn’t it? Christmas is for many a time to spend with family, but for many folk it can be a very difficult period when that can’t happen for a whole lot of reasons. Whilst […]
