Thought for the Month January 2026 Let me start by wishing all our Thought for the Month readers a very happy and peaceful New Year, and that the blessings of the closing Christmas season be with you always. As I look back on 2025 the proliferation of misinformation, spin, fabrication, half-truths, or to use currentRead more

Thought for the Month December 2025 Happy New Church Year! Yes, it’s that time again as we leave one church worship year for another, and as always, that must mean we have entered the season of Advent, which just like its Lenten cousin, demands of us that most precious of personal possessions, our time! TheRead more

Thought for the Month November 2025 I tend to think that the Epistle shouldn’t be read in church. It’s usually knotty in argument and not easy to take in fully at one go. It doesn’t work well when read in a “churchy” voice – it demands someone like Paul, truculent, opinionated, uncompromising. Jeremy Clarkson wouldRead more

Thought for the Month October 2025 (plus Harvest supplement) Leviticus 24: 19-20 (NIV) 19 Anyone who injures their neighbour is to be injured in the same manner: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. Below are questions which would take a far greater theologicalRead more

A Thought for September 2025 God, where are you in all this? There doesn’t seem to be anything good going on in the world right now, don’t you think? When you watch the news, read the newspaper or overhear a polite conversation, the status quo is more often one of doom and gloom than anythingRead more

Thought for the Month August 2025 “Not not a Christian” Home (where, as Paul Simon says, my thought’s escaping) figures a lot in the Bible. In the Old Testament, the House of God travelled as a tabernacle with the Israelites as they searched to find and secure a homeland (an ongoing narrative, as we knowRead more