Immunised for 2012
February 2012
If your doctor told you that, in order to prevent you from catching a recently spreading virus, he would have to infect you with the very same virus – you might be taken aback. Yet this is, in fact, one of medical science’s greatest developments Read more
Wisdom in Winning
January 2012
Picture this: an enthusiastic group of local churchgoers have assembled on a blustery Saturday morning in their local town-centre. It’s half-past one in the afternoon, hand-written leaflets had advertised the event to start at midday Read more
Flying with Time
January 2012
Do you ever get the feeling that time is moving too quickly? That with every passing year, so goes another chance to realise the aspirations you’ve harboured for so long? Do you ever think that you just don’t have the time to achieve the things Read more
Salt and Light in Action
November 2011
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” – James 1:27. When we are called into the family of God we are not only Read more
Peace of Mind
November 2011
Recently I carried out a brief poll asking people ‘What does peace of mind mean to you?’ For one person, it was knowing that ‘I have nothing to worry about, God’s in control’, for someone else it was being able to sleep peacefully at night. Read more
Peace of Heart
October 2011
The first time you encountered God you were overcome with a profound feeling of acceptance, of justification and an encompassing sense of peace. “How could such a majestic being have any regard for me?” Read more
Mending & Tending
September 2011
On the power of association Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, says – “Friends that don’t help you climb will want you to crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don’t increase you will eventually Read more
Who are You?
August 2011
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation’ – Oscar Wilde’s uncomfortable discovery of an almost timeless truth – ‘De Profundis’ was written in the 19th century, Read more
X Factor Mentality
July 2011
Asked in a UK radio interview what advice he’d given contestants of the 2006 X Factor competition, the legendary Lionel Richie replied; ’I told them that the best thing that could happen to them was to lose’. Read more
On Constant Stand-by
April 2011
Technological progress in mass communication has been truly impressive. So rapid has been its advance that most of us have no idea just how far it has really reached. I am sometimes awe struck at how, with just a few keyboard clicks, Read more
