Planted by Water

Well I am leaving my PC for the Christmas break now! I don’t want to see it for quite sometime!! In actual fact, I go away to a conference in Cambridge after Christmas - all about relating biblical truth to contemporary social issues, so I hope to have a lot of stuff to blog about afterwards - and so I may well not be in front of this PC and on to my blog until 9th Jan!! …

I missed opportunity to blog yeserday due to working hard to get the Bible Tour blog up and running with the help of my friend and IT whizzkid, Ian McNaught (let’s hear it for Ian!!) Ian is amazingly helping me to set this blog up at the same time as moving house (last Friday) and it sounds like knocking it down in order to build it back up again! - what a guy!!

Anyway, the new blog is making good progress and will be up and running with the listing of …

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.  (G.K.Chesterton)

It’s been a while since I had anything to say about trees but I was particularly struck by these words of Jesus to some religious leaders:

A tree is identified by its fruit. Make a tree good, and its fruit will be good. Make a tree bad, and its fruit will be bad. You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. …

I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden. I will push you onwards or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the things you do, you might as well turn over to me and I’ll do them quickly and correctly. I’m easily managed, but you must be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done and, after a few lessons, I’ll do …

As promised, I’m letting you know about my blans for a bible overview blog. I was wanting to encourage folks in the church here in Huddersfield to read the Bible through  in a year, at the same time as giving them some resources to get an overview of the Bible and its message. As I planned it, I decided to use a blog to support those who have …