• Being offended and dealing with it

    You hear so much these days about people being offended and, although we should never set out to intentionally cause offence for the sake of it, if our views and opinions rub others up the wrong way then that’s their issue and not ours.

  • It’s not selfish to look after yourself

    In Nehemiah 3:28, they built the wall in front of their own home first. Good psychology and good personal responsibility.

  • While working in a garden, a lady approached me

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

  • Are you waiting for a breakthrough?

    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.

  • Dealing with fear

    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.

  • Don’t dwell on the past, instead look to the future

    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…

  • Keep going and it will come good in the end

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

  • How do you react when things don’t go your way?

    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.

  • Happy St. George’s Day

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

  • You never know what’s around life’s corner

    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.