I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger Travelling through this world below There is no sickness, no toil, nor danger In that bright land...

This morning I shall be nervously standing by the phone. You may laugh, but it seems that my lifetime ambition to be the player-manager...

“Discipline not desire determines your destiny,” declares pastor Charles Stanley. Someone clearly with an appreciation for alliteration. ...

Scarisbrick being a farming community means that our Wednesday prayer meeting starts at a ridiculously early time – and this week I found...

There’s one thing to be said in their favour, squirrels think. I know, I’ve just been watching one. Some background here. We have...

The commentator for Radio 5 Live was almost incoherent when Lucas Moura scored for Spurs in the closing seconds of the Champions League...

Each Tuesday at Ormskirk's Park pool Sarah tries to drown me. I now know her technique. To begin with she aims to tire me out through...

Sad news, sad but not unexpected. After nearly 70 years of serving the Christians and their churches of our region the Southport...

We are witnessing an entire country in freefall in which nine out of ten people cannot afford their daily food and where health care has...

We’ve all been invited by the archbishops to #followthestar throughout the 12 days of Christmas, ending with Epiphany this Sunday. Even...

Often our most powerful weapon – especially when we are taking on the strongholds of this world – is our weakness. We may face a heavily...

“Devote yourselves to prayer,” writes the apostle Paul to the Colossians (4:2) in my Bible reading for today. The BRF Guidelines...

Both hugely important but in very different ways. I refer to the two significant items which dominate this morning’s news: the...

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.” I came across this wonderful quote from...

Usual Friday morning, familiar routine so far. This being August, only one event in my diary. So let’s get going. However, if I were...

“God bless Adam and his family, even though he’s a *.” So prayed the unemployed and unemployable inadequate Colin in the final episode...

"We need to end the season on a high. We want to finish by winning all of our games. We'll do everything we possibly can to make that...

A moving testimony to God's faithfulness embedded in this week’s notices. I have written before about baby Henry Dalgoutte diagnosed...

Looking back it all seems so inevitable – but it didn’t feel like that at the time. The story of the building and commissioning of the...

Tomorrow – assuming I get away from the Diocesan Synod in good time – I will be running through 10 kms of mud in the two-lap Standish...