Archive for the ‘friendship’ Category

If you’ve been following my Tweets in the last week, you’ll be aware that I’ve been on holiday from work since Thursday of last week. The main reason I took the time off was because last Thursday my Dad, who suffers from vascular dementia was going into a local care home for a week’s respite [...]

Following on from yesterday’s blog post entitled Ready For A Change where I challenged you to consider whether you were ready to change for God, I now want you to consider what you ask for when you pray… Are you praying for your will today or for God’s will in your life? ~ Joyce Meyer [...]

If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn’t be big enough for you to completely trust him. ~ Rick Warren Do you ever think you will never truly understand God? Do you ever wonder why God seems to let bad things happen to good people? If you answered “Yes” to [...]

It’s only human nature, but we I’m sure we all find ourselves comparing ourselves to others at some time or another. However there is no need to compare ourselves with anyone other than Jesus… Don’t live life comparing yourself to everyone else. God has created you to be you and you are free to be [...]

A beautiful song with a wonderful message… I pray you’ll be our eyes and watch us where we go. And help us to be wise in times when we don’t know Let this be our prayer when we lose our way Lead us to the place guide us with your grace To a place where we’ll be [...]

I don’t know whether it’s because of what I’ve been focusing on in my blog posts this last week, I found myself doing something on Tuesday that I’ve never done before, and it even surprised me when I did it! When I was out on Tuesday lunchtime for my daily walk, I came across a [...]

So in the last few days in my Poverty In The UK blog post series I’ve given you information about why there is poverty and I’ve given you some recent statistics of current poverty levels in the UK, but what now? First and foremost we must pray! That may seem a strange thing to start [...]

Today in my Poverty In The UK blog post series, I just want to give you some facts about UK poverty… 4 million children – one in three – are currently living in poverty in the UK, one of the highest rates in the industrialised world. Poverty can have a profound impact on everyone affected, a [...]

What do you think of when you hear the word missionary? Foreign lands? Travelling thousands of miles from home? Poverty? Homelessness? Starvation? Illness? Let me challenge you by saying, given the amount of poverty, homelessness and hunger in some of our cities and towns, is it not about time we did more missionary work on our [...]

Have you ever wondered if God really does exist? Sometimes when you’re going through a difficult spell in your life and you pray to God to help you through but nothing seems to improve, have you questioned God’s existence? I suspect like me, many of you will have experienced times like these. However it’s during [...]