Month: December 2021

To watch this, rather than read it, may I suggest you click the image above or use this link. Happy Christmas morning! May I, on behalf of my family, wish you and all your loved ones are blessed and happy Christmas season Every year brings its own challenges, and I

Anyone for tea? Cautionary Tales We were invited to Aras an Uchtaran some years ago. That is the name of the Irish Presidents’s formal home in Phoenix Park Dublin. We were both nervous and elated. We were put at a table beside a couple who, like us, had moved with

An excuse for a man The brave words of a crumby king: ‘He is in your hands,’ King Zedekiah answered. ‘The king can do nothing to oppose you.’ Imagine today’s political leaders stepping back and abandoning their duty! Leaving us high and dry! Here was a king who used the

At this season of joyful excess, these words come as a powerful reminder of the danger of the season of too much joyful excess. Remember in your prayers those who do not know when to say No! Enough! Today’s post is simply a quote from Proverbs 23 29 Who has woe?

Family Versus Church The dilemma The story of the Rechabites, as told by Jeremiah, reveals the strange dichotomy between our attitudes to what “grandda” says and what “The Lord” says. This particular family in Jerusalem were strict in their obedience to their ancestral father’s command, but the people around them

Repenting of … repentance? Slavery in the Jewish world When the great William Wilberforce challenged the world of its dependence on slavery, and managed by his death to see legislation ban the slave trade from the British empire, he faced many people inside the church and outside it who believed