The only place to be
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere... Psalm 84.10 Thomas à Kempis said something like; "Heaven is where God is....
Sooner resisted easier overcome
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil......
False start?
"Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.” Genesis...
More of the same leads to the inevitability of change
... your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6. 10 So the SNP has a new leader and, if confirmed in...
On guard
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Ephesians...
Antidote
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us... Ephesians...
What does it matter?
What do people gain from all their labours at which they toil under the sun? Ecclesiastes 3.1 In the film Living, which is set in the...
Consistency in public life
For God does not show favouritism. Roman 2.11 Question Time last night was a frustrating business. The politicians on the panel vied with...
Between the fasts
"Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for...
Off the fence
In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant. Psalm 143.12 The bellicose spirit in which this...