Letter from the Manse (145)

Thought provoking, biblical, often topical but always worth a read!

  • Humour & Holiness

    I spent last week with 17 other men on a “study week” and we studied. 7 hours together each day around the conference table and personal assignments to be completed in the break times. And it was fun.  Lots of laughter around the study table, at meal-times...

  • The cost of Christmas

    In a few weeks time most of us will be celebrating Christmas.  So how do we, as Christians, decide what it’s right to spend at Christmas? We face the same pressures as other folk. Let me remind you of five important truths.

  • Taking things for granted

    This year a number of unwanted events have reminded me of just what a privileged life I live. The things we take for granted and accept as ‘normal’ in our day and age would be thought of as extraordinary luxuries by every other generation in history.

  • God’s Glory, our Joy

    I hope the dates are in your diary: Friday 10th & Saturday 11th October for the God’s Glory Our Joy conference. This will be the fifteenth GGOJ we’ve helped to organise. The first was held in the year 2000. But the story goes back a couple of years earlier...