A welcome telegram!
Do you remember these? Before the days of mobile phones and text messages. Before Social media – What’s that?As you might have guessed, I am going back a long way – in fact, I am going back to the last century!One year after the mission in the Baptist Church in Great Sampford (see previous blog),…
Going for a walk
Easter comes and Easter goes. Now we are heading towards the summer (hopefully a good one). There are two of us and we are heading home. It’s about a 7 mile walk. The road is dusty. The weather is hot. Cleopas and I are confused. We can’t make head or tail of what has been…
Good morning Goliath!
As you look at this picture, you might be forgiven for thinking, ‘this looks like an unfair contest’.You could be right, so why is it the starting point for this blog?At the age of ’16 going on 17′ (I think there’s a song there from a famous musical) I was part of a team that…
One more detour …
Before I go back to my own personal journey with my Bible, we are now in the season of Advent as we look forward to the coming of Jesus as a baby in Bethlehem. It’s a season of hope and expectation. We are living through difficult and challenging times as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps around…
The Wow factor!
From my previous blog I now knew that I was going to heaven and the Bible was a book I wanted to explore. What I didn’t know then was what had really happened to me in becoming a Christian and starting out on a new journey as a boy not yet in his teens. Looking…
Good old Peter!
You may remember that Peter was one of the disciples that Jesus had chosen. He was not afraid to speak up or speak out, which sometimes got him into trouble and other times he was spot on.One fine day he was in the boat with some of the disciples and they were going across the…
A lesson from a disabled boy
Tom was a young orphan boy who lived in East London with an old lady he called ‘Granny’. He couldn’t walk without the aid of crutches but his room was on the top floor of a three-storey block. This meant he was confined to his small room, with very little chance of any visitors. He…
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