Pastor's Thoughts

Wash, Wash, wash your hands, play our handy game. Rub and scrub, rub and scrub, germs go down the drain ` is a nursery rhyme which encourages children to wash their hands regularly. But now with coronavirus dominating our lives, it is a fitting saying that should be used to encourage adults to wash ...

When Dan and Naomi were children, they would often ask me to catch them when they jumped off the stairs, chair or wall, but in their excitement of doing these `daring deeds`, they needed reassurance that I would not let them fall. And I would always respond with those comforting words: `Don’t worry,...

Just recently, I drove into Osborne Street and saw a van with the words `Just Ask` on the side of it. And the word `Just` prompted me to think about other sayings beginning with the word `Just`, i.e. Just in case, just my luck, just a second, just in time, just married, just the ticket, just dessert...

Throughout life there are many decisions that need to be made whether it`s: at work, at home, at school or college, booking a holiday, making dinner, what TV programme to watch, what to wear, what bus to catch or what supermarket to go to and the big one, how many Weetabix do I have for breakfast.

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Love is all around but there`s no sign of it in the motor trade` was a funny quote I read recently. And those words could probably apply to many businesses and organisations too.

Sadly, love is missing in so many aspects of life but on the other hand, `love is all around` as 80`s pop group Wet Wet W...

I want to break free`, is of course, a song by Queen and expresses what many people desire and crave. So many feel `trapped` today and for all sorts of reasons and long to be `free`.

If there`s one movie I love watching over and over again is `Groundhog Day.` It`s a film about a man called Phil Conn...

Last week I watched numerous TV documentaries and films on the 75th anniversary of the Jews being liberated from Nazi concentration camps. I have been moved and humbled by what I have seen. The Holocaust is one of the most disgraceful acts of evil known to man but watching some of the `moving` servi...

If there is one part of the human body that always fascinates me, it is the hands. Our hands are one of the most complex but beautiful pieces of natural engineering, intricately designed to perform a whole range of tasks. But it is what our hands are capable of doing that really fascinates me, not s...

I recently went to see the movie `1917` which is based on a true story about two British soldiers who received seemingly impossible orders. In `a race against time`, they must `put their neck on the line` to cross over into German territory to deliver a message that could potentially save 1,600 fell...

A couple of years ago Debs and I went to see ABBA MANIA which is a tribute act to the famous pop group. It was a great spectacle especially as everyone sang along to ABBA`s popular songs from Angel Eyes to Waterloo. Even I found myself singing along to those jolly lyrics even waving my arms in the a...