Elaine Utting

A couple of weeks ago there was a ‘Fake Festival’ on The Stray, with bands playing ‘non-stop, adrenaline-pumping mega anthems that are just screaming to be rocked!’ As humans, we need those times when hearts are joined together - by songs touching on shared experiences of life.

David Francis

Elections consume a lot of nations time and money, yielding human hope and aspiration for ‘Change’. Christians proclaim a message that will wipe all these tears away! There is a new world coming - and we see glimpses of it breaking through even today.

Joy Revie

I really love our times of worship in Harrogate Vineyard. As we sing, the sense of the Holy Spirit's presence is tremendous. The words of one of my favourite songs, Make Room, challenge me every time. What's my reality of daily accepting ‘Your way is better’?

Sheree Morris

I was thinking about the parable of the Wheat and the Weeds, and how the Sower tells his servants to wait, letting the weeds in effect grow up alongside the wheat until the harvest, and I was challenged as to how we can successfully do this.

Ian Revie

Often in my life just now it appears to me that God is contradicting the vision He has given me to plan and deliver. When I look back on my life, the contradiction appears to be connected with my impatience, and often there is a long wait in the journey. Why?

Helen Francis

As many of you will know, at the moment David and I are spending five weeks touring the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in our caravan. As well as being able to revisit places we've been, we are enjoying the delight of discovering and exploring new places together.

Louise Harris

I have known God’s tender comfort and healing when my heart has been broken, and I’ve experienced this directly and also very often through others. It leads me to think how do we reflect this in the way we treat others around us.

Elaine Utting

During a hot spell a pot in my backyard had become very dry. The root growth had filled it, so there was no room for the water, and it was running off the sides. Once I’d noticed, I began to give it a little water several times a day instead.

David Francis

Horlicks and Ian Dury and the Blockheads! Not a combination you might think would in any way connects to this week’s inspiration. However, our visit to Colonel Sir James Horlicks‘ Achamore gardens provided "reasons to be cheerful" (Ian Dury reference) at every step.

Joy Revie

Ian and I have recently completed walking the West Highland Way - 96 miles through everchanging landscape. Often the path seemed daunting as we looked ahead, yet perfectly manageable when we looked back! Looking down gave a very different perspective.

Nam Biyani

Every-time I read the story of Peter walking on water with Jesus it makes me think that was it not obvious that a man stepping out of boat into the sea would drown? But, in Peter’s case, God made an exception.

Ian Revie

How often do we get to the start of a new day, or end of the same, and think we feel far away from God? Since I was young I have always leaned on the fact that, when I feel like this, we just need to pray “God you know my heart” and somehow the prayer is made.

Helen Francis

Most of us will have a favourite scripture, a reading that really speaks to us. For me it's Psalm 27 because so much of it echoes my own walk with God. These are some of the verses that speak to me, especially in the King James translation…

Louise Harris

I had been crying out to my Heavenly Father while feeling hopeless and I just couldn’t see a way forwards, when this phrase popped up in a daily reading. It really struck me and I clung to it, I just knew I had to hold on tight and wait to see what God would do.

Elaine Utting

I recently received an email offering me my spring COVID-19 booster vaccination. I started thinking of how a vaccination works. It gives us a little bit of the infection so the body can learn to recognise it and start to fight back.

David Francis

Susan Boyle was initially not perceived be a singer of any repute when she appeared on ‘Britain's Got Talent’. Ever hopeful, she sang to the sceptical audience and judges. Things changed! She went on to win launching her long held desire to be a professional singer.

Joy Revie

‘I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?’ What an amazingly reassuring and uplifting verse, brimming with hope and endless possibilities. But how does this work out in the daily reality of our lives?

Nam Biyani

Jesus knew that his disciples were going to betray him and still he washed their feet! It leaves me stunned thinking about Jesus’s compassion and love for his Disciples. And when I say today I am his Disciple, knowing that I too am a recipient of this amazing love!

Jennifer Fletcher

This Easter marks my 22nd year as a committed follower of Jesus. On September 11th 2001, I was about to board a plane to Hong Kong when I heard the news that two planes had flown in to the World Trade Centre in New York.

Ian Revie

I don’t know about you but I probably have listened too much to the news with doom & gloom about conflicts, endless food shortages and political disruption across the world. I have taken to stop listening to the news, but is this the answer?