Dear Friends, The Lord loveth him that followeth after righteousness [Proverbs 15:9 (KJV)]. In last month’s magazine Crawford wrote: “As with any group of individuals there are disagreements and upsets; there always will be, but none are insurmountable, remembering...

Dear Friends, Look at the birds flying around; they do not sow seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren’t you worth much more than birds? [Matthew 6:26]. What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and grief to...

Dear Friends Back in 2015 we were in vacancy, and I was approached with the request to write the message for what was then The Link, the magazine for West Orchard URC. I agreed, reluctantly. Here we are in 2022 and once again we have said farewell to another minister,...

Dear Friends ‘For I know the plans I have for you’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek...

Dear Friends, "For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.” [Ecclesiastes 3:1] “Yesterday is but a memory, and tomorrow but a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a memory of happiness, and every tomorrow, a vision of...

Dear Friends My life is able to serve as an example to others, because you have been a stout protector …. You yourself should strive in everything you do to be a good example of how to behave. (Psalm 71:7; Titus 2:7) Graffiti mostly looks like a mindless mess – and...

Dear Friends, But I think it is necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, co-worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger, whom you sent to take care of my needs. For he longs for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill. Indeed...

Dear Friends Jesus drew near and said to them, ‘All power in heaven and earth has been given to me. Go, then, and make disciples of all people, baptising them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.’ [Matthew 28:18-19] Have you noticed a new phrase...

Dear Friends Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose inestimable mercy we have been born again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is incorruptible, unspoilt and unfading. [1...