March 2023 Magazine Jesus’ life has spawned many books! It is in John’s Gospel that the writer concludes: ‘Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written’ (John 21v25). We live...
A few nights ago Sally and I sat down to a candlelit evening meal. However this was no romantic tryst. A failure of a mains cable left the top half of our road with no electric power for nearly twelve hours. I worried about the fire hazard from the candles, while Sally was concerned about...
The Rosetta Stone, Courtesy of https://sketchplanations.com/the-rosetta-stone Let me pose a question. What might connect ‘The Lead Shot Tower’ in Chester (which is 168 feet tall and now a listed monument) at a factory where I worked until 1982 with ‘The Rosetta Stone’? Well, in 1799 the Shot Tower was built by the Walker family to...
Thank you to everyone who helped to make the Christingle Service so successful. We made 35 oranges into Christingles, children remembering what the symbols represent. There were a lot of adults and children enjoying the crafts, it was lovely to see so many old faces. Then into church for the service, Peter gave a talk...
