“It’s a Wonderful Life” revisited

I was told a story recently of a Christian friend who attended a “Carols in the Pub” event but felt uncomfortable and left early. Whilst not wanting to make a big deal out of it, appear judgmental, be over pious, lose an opportunity to be a witness or be a party pooper etc., she was grieved due to the irreverence she saw.

The Church, Christian Unity and now that I’m old

England restore joy to all aspects of Test Cricket

That was the headline introducing today’s BBC report of England’s historic win against Pakistan, in Pakistan, following victory in the Third Cricket Test in Karachi (England winning the first two).

After writing my “World Cup 2022: Tournament in Qatar set to get under way”, I hadn’t reckoned doing the five instalments in my “Football World Cup 2022 – the story so far” series to follow it and prior to this post, when the original intention was to post again once we knew who is the winner, which now we do!

Remembering Garfield Jordan

Today I attended the funeral thanksgiving service for Garfield Jordan (09/11/38 – 16/11/22).

Football World Cup 2022 – the story so far (5)

And now there are two …

David and Goliath

Of all those David had dealings with, it is the one with Goliath that is best known to many.

Are the dominoes about to fall?

I was reminded earlier today, by Facebook, that two years ago to the day I posted on my page a link to an article I wrote earlier that day titled: “Trumpwatch 41 – when the Dominos fall”.

David and Samuel

As we embark on a journey of looking at the life and times (and legacy) of David, in ten parts, through the lens of ten different characters who played significant parts, we note the Book (or two books) that tell much of the story is named after the man who God commissioned to go and anoint David as King over Israel.