We all love a good story about redemption. A human hero, warts and all, who overcomes weakness to win the day. We love it because we live it. We identify with the weakness and maybe even the warts, and we hope to overcome, to win. Redemption is such a common theme that GoodReads has a shelf…
Tag: Hope
The answer to anxiety
I would like to share a great sermon I heard on a subject that many, if not all, of us know much about – anxiety. There is an answer. Have a listen, and I hope you find it as helpful as I did. Anxiety by RW Glenn
Why the violence?
Another day … more violent deaths! On the news tonight I’m reading of 12 shot dead at the Navy Yard in the States; a teenager charged with murder in Leicester; a teenager arrested on suspicion of murder in Birmingham; a report issued into the terrible abuse and death of a child in Coventry. The BBC’s…
Hope in God’s Sovereign Timing
Thinking about the account in Mark chapter 1 of the temptation of God’s eternal Son, Jesus Christ, and his subsequent commencement of public ministry, gives great encouragement to all who are going through their own times of testing, trials or periods of suffering. The lessons are simple, but can be difficult to appreciate in a…
Hope in grief
Today, as snow covers the city, it covers a city in grief. Hundreds will be gathering this afternoon at St.Philip’s Cathedral in the centre of Birmingham to pay their respects to the Edkin family and to mourn the tragic death of 16 year old Christina Edkin. We were all shocked and outraged when we heard…
Forward in Hope 