There is a well-known quote that is often accredited to CS Lewis but actually belongs to Charles Marshall.

There are often times in our life when we need to see change quickly. It might be a health situation, a financial circumstance or perhaps something emotional.

Whether short-term, long-term or somewhere in between, we all have times in our life when we come up against fear of some description.

I retired from formal work on December 22 last year and, leaving my place of employment, I haven’t looked back once. There’s a short introduction at the start of this week’s Wednesday Words of Wisdom message which highlights that. After the conversation, the following from the Bible came to mind. “Forget the former things;    do not…

The illustrations come from the world of football and, in particular, recent results involving Bradford City and Leeds United.

My granddaughter was asked to read in the church that we attend, last weekend, and part of the passage from Habakkuk is one of my favourites.

George defeated the dragon, an enemy that we read about in the bible. What battle are we fighting in our life?

I wrote a blog post last Friday that the game of football I played would be my last as a 62-year-old. Even when I was composing it, I thought to myself that you never know what’s around life’s corner.

One moment the Israelites were on top and then they weren’t. It’s a reminder that things in our own life can change very quickly, which is why we need to hang on in there, trust and believe.

For some years now, on my personal website I’ve had the following displayed on the home page: ‘The wise man builds his house on the rock, not the sand.’