Category: Developing Faith

  • Look the Part…Play your Part

    Look the Part…Play your Part

    A #ThursdayThrowback post inspired by the Olympic Games. Look the Part…Play your part. These are the words that greeted me yesterday on a very large boxed package that arrived with my name on it. It was very exciting to receive such a large parcel through the post and then to unwrap it and read those…

  • A Travelling Gospel..

    A Travelling Gospel..

    Here is Grace no.12. Isn’t she beautiful. She’s a Wesleyan Home Mission travelling gospel horse drawn car for travelling preachers. I knew that John Wesley was an itinerant preacher on horseback but I didn’t know about these later gospel mission cars. I saw Grace No.12 yesterday at The Black Country Living Museum and immediately fell…

  • The Narrow Gate…

    The Narrow Gate…

    Tomorrow, we head off to the Yorkshire Dales for a holiday. I’m looking forward to walking in the Dales, breathing in the fresh air and seeing those rolling green hills. I am sharing a re-post about “the narrow gate” which was inspired by an earlier visit to the Peak District. On our first evening in…

  • When Simon of Cyrene helped Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    When Simon of Cyrene helped Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    Today’s post in our series is by Alan Kearns who blogs at Devotional Treasure. Alan was one of the first Christian writers that I connected with on WordPress and he is a true inspiration. “And after they had mocked Him, they took the purple cloak off Him and put His own garments on Him. And…

  • When the Religious Elite met Jesus..Encounters with Jesus

    When the Religious Elite met Jesus..Encounters with Jesus

    Today’s post in our series of Encounters with Jesus is written by Nathan Berry who is a presenter on Pure247radio. His inspiration is taken from the verses in Matthew 22:15-46. His thoughts follow on beautifully this week with our theme of humility. Keep Your Trap ShutEver wished you’d kept your mouth shut? There’s a group…

  • When a Centurion met Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    When a Centurion met Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    Today’s post in our series of Encounters with Jesus is written by Steven Berry who is a radio presenter on Pure247radio. You can listen to Steven’s show on the website Pure247Radio.org or by downloading the app Pure247Radio Just Say the Word Jesus had an interesting encounter with a Roman soldier, in Matthew (8:5-13) which left…

  • Being obedient..prayer for the week ahead 4/3/26

    Being obedient..prayer for the week ahead 4/3/26

    “Then his servants approached and spoke to him, saying, “My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, in accordance with…