I don’t know about other preachers but I find, at times such as Christmas, there is a reoccurring theme throughout my preaching. During Christmas 2019, that theme has been “darkness and light”. I have found that there have been two verses in particular that have really spoken to me; The people walking in darkness have […]
Month: December 2019
Disruption
Yesterday as my, almost, six-month old grandchild vomited on my jumper (yet again), I found myself reflecting that a baby brings an awful lot of disruption with it. Your world is never the same. Things that you used to take for granted are no longer the same. When you used to just jump in the […]
Missing It
I recently took my daughter to a hospital appointment in London. The challenge that lay before us was navigating ourselves to an unfamiliar part of London in the rush hour. Our appointment time was just as the daily rush was beginning and it meant that we would be trying to get home in the midst […]
Dark and Light
As I have been preparing for the upcoming festive season, a lot of my thinking has been around the theme of light and darkness. I love the prologue of John’s Gospel and contrasting images of light and dark that it presents; The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. (John […]