Dear Friends Forgiveness can often be challenging for us. We hold on to grudges because of the emotional pain, hurt and betrayal associated with the offences we have had to endure. We may even find it more difficult when the person who has hurt us does it...

Dear Friends, The joy of the Lord is your strength! [Nehemiah 8:10] Our life journey is often faced with challenges, obstacles and trials being thrown our way, as well as unannounced and unexpected experiences that seek to shape and change the course of our lives....

Dear Friends, The joy of the Lord is your strength! [Nehemiah 8:10] Our life journey is often faced with challenges, obstacles and trials being thrown our way, as well as unannounced and unexpected experiences that seek to shape and change the course of our lives....

Dear Friends, 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 5:15-16] Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. [Psalms 90:12] These two scriptures talk...

Dear Friends, Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. [1 Thessalonians 15:16-18] In many churches today, the weekly prayer meeting is usually the most unattended in the programme, or it has...

Dear Friends, It is an honour to serve as Pastor at Baginton Road URC.  The Lord has called me here for a purpose, and I am committed wholeheartedly to fulfilling that purpose. I am full of joy, excitement and expectation for the future of this Church. It has been a...

Dear Friends, On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. [Luke 24: 1-3]...

Dear Friends But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint. [Isaiah 40:31 NIV] Isaiah is my favourite OT prophet; the writing is full of rich poetic...

Dear Friends Wherever I travel, I wear a wooden bead bracelet onto which is carved the biblical phrase: Wherever you go, I will go with you. I have always found that declaration so lovingly reassuring. So when, in late November, I received a ticket to North Carolina...