I looked up what the word "merry" means and simply put, it's 'cheerful and lively'.  What a great greeting to extend to someone this morning, As we look at the reading this morning from John's opening verses of his Gospel, we find the writer works hard to help us appre...

Tomorrow is Christmas Day 2018.  Some of you will be reading this as the day starts and you are already on leave while others perhaps are racing into a final day of work realising that there is so much you still have to do before the shops close and you wonder how you...

In the culture of the day, as Paul writes to the Galatian church, an underage heir of an estate is no more or no less better off than a slave; the benefit of inheriting the estate only falls to that 'heir' when they are 'of age', when the appointed time has come to pas...

The sinister intent of King Herod is played out in our reading today as he orders the killing of all male children under the age of 2 years.  However, hovering above the efforts of this puppet king to protect his throne, is the mighty arm of the Creator God who will no...

It is the Magi who have introduced the term 'worship' into this particular encounter.  Back in vs 2, as they entered the city of Jerusalem, they enquired where the new young King was, so that they might worship him.  From the vantage point of verse 12 and looking back...

Yesterday I shared my personal experience with 'Nurse supervisor Learch' when I was a student nurse. Something that caused this supervisor to be constantly on the defensive was the wave of change that enveloped public hospitals in the late 1970's. 'Learch' wanted thing...