WALKING WITH GOD

WALKING WITH GOD As you know, I have spent a lot of time walking during the past year, often alone but also with others. I sometimes think I must have walked the equivalent of Land’s End to John O’Groats. But it has kept me fit and in a good state mentally. Walking is...

Visit of Sharon Garlough Brown

Programme for Sharon Garlough Brown May 2022 Tues 10 – Fri 13   Retreat at Ashburnham Place (Sussex) Start mid-afternoon Tues, finish lunch on Friday www.ashburnham.org.uk Book direct   This will be an open retreat for anyone interested in going deeper with...

FOUR THINGS TO PRAY FOR YOURSELF, AND OTHERS

To know Jesus more deeply As with many things, we learn how to pray by watching others and then having a go ourselves. Paul was a master in the art of praying, and his prayer for the Ephesian believers shows us how to pray strategically for ourselves, and others....

Surrender to love

Growing up as a boy, a highlight of my week came on Saturday when I went to watch sport on TV with a family friend, Mr Padgett. We had no TV, so this was a real treat. We watched horse racing, wrestling and got the football scores. Halfway through his wife would bring...

We fix our eyes on Jesus

The great Biblical antidote to the negative feelings created in us by winter lockdown is to fix our eyes on Jesus. It is to turn our thoughts towards him and, if we have lost connection with him through the challenges we face, to consciously bring ourselves back into...

You will be found

I really enjoy musical theatre, so last night’s Musicals: The Greatest Show on BBC1 was a real treat. One song stood out for me, a song I hadn’t heard before called ‘You Will Be Found’, from the Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen.  It’s a song about loneliness, and the...