I was looking for a story – or at least a quotation – to start this sermon in an interesting way. I flicked through numerous pages and read up on a vast number of sayings and short stories, but virtually nothing appealed to me. But it wasn’t a waste of my time. Many of those quotations gave me an insight…

I guess you’ve come across those irritating people who use step-trackers to count their physical activities 24/7 and who talk about it at every opportunity. I’m one of those people! And I lead by example, so a couple of my friends – inspired by me – have bought their own devices and use them. Even my mum has got one,…

While I was visiting Poland a couple of years ago, I bought a computer game. I bought it purely as an act of patriotically-driven support for the Polish maker of the game. The unopened game landed up in a drawer where it remained virtually forgotten. Since my teenage years I had always considered the playing of computer games to be…

Every now and again I receive particular requests from people; some of them – the people, not the requests – are from my friends, some are from acquaintances, and some are from complete strangers. These people come from a variety of age-groups, backgrounds, heritages and origins… the list is pretty long. What they all have in common in this particular…

While she was out on her rounds, a nun working for a local home healthcare agency ran out of petrol. There was a petrol station just down the road. Since the nun was on the way to see a patient, she decided to look through her car for something to carry to the station and fill up with petrol. Always…