Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and prayers shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the centre of your life. Philippians 4:6-7 MSG Comment In...
‘If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.’ Comment On the day after Valentine’s Day it seems appropriate to consider physical intimacy and in particular –...
How many ways to say ‘I love you’? Kind words are like honey – sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. Proverbs 16.24 Comment In last week’s ePrayer we talked about different ways of expressing our love. This week we thought we’d look at speaking out our love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s love poem is one of the most...
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement, because in this world we are like him. 1 John 4:16-17 Comment In a programme about Paris the other evening, the presenter commented on how many...
