Category: beginings

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What do you find wonderful and exciting about Christmas? – The decorations – the party atmosphere – the rich food – the holidays off work – being with your family and friends? – over-indulging in a little wine or spirits? – If you ask many families what they think makes their Christmas enjoyable and exciting…

By Derek Buckthorpe 13th February 2011 Off

Money

Money – most of us think it’s the key to everything Success – happiness – a stress free life – But if we’re not careful – it can also open the door to ruin – deception – corruption – greed –

By Derek Buckthorpe 13th February 2011 Off

Fishing

Fishing – not every ones favourite pastime or occupation. To some – it’s a case of a worm at one end – and a fool at the other – but to catch fish – even with a net – takes a lot of skill and patience. We’ve all heard about the big one that got…

By Derek Buckthorpe 13th February 2011 Off

Friendships

Friendships are special. A real friend will accept you for the way you are , believes in you, encourages you, is trustworthy and will never forsake you, will forgive your mistakes and enjoy being with you. Most of us will have fewer real friends in our lifetime than the number of fingers on one hand.…

By Derek Buckthorpe 13th February 2011 Off

Hope

What do we hope for? – lots of money? happiness? Success in business? New friendships? – Hope the car starts in the morning. We all have different hopes and expectations from life – some are very important to us –

By Derek Buckthorpe 13th February 2011 Off

Hunger

Our two readings have something to say about hunger! – but –What is Hunger ? We’ve all seen the pictures on our televisions of Famines in Africa – people starving to the point of death but it doesn’t only mean lack of food!

By Derek Buckthorpe 13th February 2011 Off

Influence

Who do we look up to? Who has the biggest influence on us? – Our families? – our friends? The people we work with? the T.V. ? British soaps like Coronation street, Brookeside or EastEnders ? -Or maybe football stars or pop stars like David Beckham, Ryan Giggs or Robbie Willaims? Who shapes us? Who…

By Derek Buckthorpe 13th February 2011 Off

Love

“Love” is probably the most talked about, written about, sung about word in the human vocabulary – when we think of love – we think of God – Mother Julian of Norwich in her – Revelations of divine love describes love as “The light”, which God in His wisdom measures out to us – Love…

By Derek Buckthorpe 13th February 2011 Off

Assurance

Help! – we all need it – We all need support – someone to hold on to When our confidence fails – when we feel ourselves slipping – We need to be sure – sure that we are doing the right thing – sure that God is on our side – Sure that our sins…

By Derek Buckthorpe 13th February 2011 Off