True friendship
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. Proverbs 17.17 The reception after a funeral is so important...
Loss and gain
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Mark 8.36 The deaths of Nottingham University students...
Knowing God, knowing oneself
You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 16.11...
What a joke
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way... Isaiah 53.6 "We must be the laughing stock of the world,"...
Like the grass
“All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall..." 1 Peter 1....
Love song
My son is love unknown... In 1664, the English clergyman Samuel Crossman poured his own experience of rejection and faith into a...
Everything good again
Thine be the glory, risen, conqu'ring son... The Easter classic 'Thine be the glory' was written in 1884 by a French-speaking Swiss...
Unseasonally seasonal
Hark the herald angels sing... Charles Wesley's popular Christmas anthem began life in 1739 with the words "Hark how all the welkin...
Grand designs
He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “Sovereign LORD, you alone know.” Ezekiel 37.3 History was made yesterday, with...
Problem or embarrassment?
So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Revelation 3.16 Yesterday I wended my way from...
