• A Deep Deep Deep Joy..a repost

    The advent theme this week is Joy so there are naturally a number of posts being written on the theme of “joy” and given it’s the season “to be joyful” I thought I would “joy-n” in…🤪 Do you need some joy in your hearts today my friends? A re-discovering of the joy in knowing the…

  • Prayer for joy in the week ahead..

    Prayer for joy in the week ahead..

    “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Rom.12.12 NIVUK Dear Father in heaven, hear our prayer today we ask. May the joy of our salvation and gift of life with you through faith in your son Jesus, His patient enduring of affliction and suffering and His daily example of prayer to you,…

  • Joy in the hard times…

    Joy in the hard times…

    In this season of life: Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, YET I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be…

  • A Shout for Joy..

    A Shout for Joy..

    This weekend we light our third Advent Candle at church which represents Joy. “And they sang, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, saying, “For He is good, for His favor is upon Israel forever.” And all the people shouted with a great shout of joy when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of…

  • Come and See Jesus this Christmas..

    Come and See Jesus this Christmas..

    I was thinking yesterday of how so many Christmas songs and carols invite us to come and see and to come and take part in the wonder of Christmas. It reminded me of the invitation Jesus extends to all of us….come and see. This Christmas we extend the invitation to others to “Come and see”…

  • Family Resemblance..prayer for this week 9/12

    Family Resemblance..prayer for this week 9/12

    “Therefore be imitators of God as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.” Ephesians 5 1-2 NKJV Father, our prayer this week is that others will see you and your son Jesus reflected in…

  • The same in every way…

    The same in every way…

    Today is my eldest daughter’s birthday. A lot of people say she is a chip off the old block and has many of our family characteristics and looks. Jesus had more than a passing resemblance to His Father God. He was and is exactly like His Father God in every way. “And He is the…