I write this to you having just had a zoom meeting with Ian, our proposed guest speaker / film introducer for Sunday. His business in...

"The 'stitch in time' is simply the prompt sewing up of a small hole or tear in a piece of material, so saving the need for more...

Photo by Holger Link on Unsplash I read with some dismay of President Putin boasting about his new hyper-sonic Avangard glide vehicle,...

I found an anthology in the Salvation Army charity shop today, and here is one of the poemsit contained, something suitable for us as we...

In 1982, when I was fifteen, my mother landed me the job of after-school produce assistant at Foodtown, Howick. Because she was a...

The news media advises of the passing of Garth Gilmour, prolific journalist and author, on June 25th, aged 94. Garth caught the jogging...

Henry Ward Beecher, 19th Century American preacher and journalist said; "The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be...

Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash Clearly, in a global sense, we are far from being 'Post-Covid.' The desire to open borders more...

I guess I have a contrarian streak. The jury is out on whether it has served me well over the years. I drink the tart wine of skepticism...

Silence and inactivity unsettle us. Not everyone, essential workers were busier, but some of us had a period of quiet in alert level 4...

On Sunday before my sermon we played a version of John the Revelator by Blind Willie Johnston, composed in 1930. I'd hoped to show you...

I've tried not to kick against the constraints of lock-down levels 2 to 4 and back down again. I prefer to see them as a space into which...

I think we can all agree the teaching and insight we received from Bruce and Jenny Eirena at our previous Sunday zoom church was most...

Today I said in the hearing of others; 'I'm so glad I wasn't confined to a small apartment in Spain (or similar) during lock-down.' To be...

May is missions month in the life of FHPC. so in the online church environment, we're doing what we can to engage speakers working both...

In the last week or two of lock-down, a number of people have been expressing through social media or in phone conversations that they...

Having been deprived of takeaways for weeks and weeks (first world problems) it seems a lot of folk were prepared to queue for long...

Our teaching this week brings us us to the seventh and last of the churches found in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, Laodicea. It's that...

This year the lead in to Easter contained many distractions, not least of which was the looming concerns about the Coronavirus pandemic....

I had a dream about life jackets two nights in a row. The life jackets were for sale outside my window, they were children's life ...