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Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends I came across this recently and I think it is worth repeating here. It helps us to understand what the Bible, the greatest book ever written is about. It is by Sam Larrabee of Bethany Church Student Ministries. The Bible isn’t a book about how to be a Christian.…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends We are called to be witnesses to Jesus Christ. Right at the start of Jesus’s ministry he said this. “Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavours of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends Over the last few months we have preached the ten Holy Habits concluding with ‘Making More Disciples’. It came last because in the book it is number ten of ten. That is because it is the most important Holy Habit. It is the prime purpose of the church, it…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends At the end of May I went on my pre-retirement course. Some of it was useful and helpful, some of it was interesting, some of it was a waste of time but all in all it set me thinking. Retirement is still two years away but if I’m not…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends If you were in church on Sunday 20th May, Pentecost you will know the significance of the train. It is a train of the Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) that I rode on 19th May 2018 and it shouldn’t be here. The predecessor of the WHR started in 1863 and…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends How do you make something fresh and real when you have done it many times? As I get older birthdays become less important as do Christmas festivities, where I go on holiday, and many other things. Sadly, the same issues confront the church in faith festivals. How do we…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends One of the joys if the Life Explored course is that it comes from things from a different angle to the norm. When we look at things in different ways we may get surprises and we may find our cherished views blown apart. In one session we looked at…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends The church is changing and the church as we know it in Europe is dying whilst a new whose shape is as yet undefined is beginning to emerge. In world terms 31.2% of the population is Christian whereas Islam is 24.1%, , no faith 16%, Hindu 15.1%, Buddhist 6.9%…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends I look out of the office windows and see the fields and the trees but my mind is drawn not to them per se but to the creator behind them, to God himself. I am reminded that God created everything for his pleasure and gave us this world to…

Thoughts From The Cottage Dear Friends January is the month of new beginnings with all its hopes. We enter a new year optimistically aware of all its possibilities, all its opportunities and all it might bring us. That optimistic outlook is not just for our personal lives but also for our life as a church.…