About the Sport Principle Judo: “The gentle art of folding people’s clothes, with the people still in them.” Judo hurts. At the end of a hard night’s training, literally shedding blood, sweat and tears, covered in bruises, dripping with sweat, and nursing countless aches and pains it’s hard to see it as the ‘gentle way’. […]
The Sport principle: Imagine being a child supporter of Manchester United, whose first game at Old Trafford was the 5-0 defeat to Liverpool earlier this season. All your short life, you’d have looked forward to an experience that should have been a happy memory for the rest of your life, but it was forever ruined […]
There is no doubt its tough. My family are distant from me, Germany, and Lincolnshire. Close friends distanced by Covid 19. The pub distanced by Covid guidelines. I need the interaction of my family; I want the interaction of my family. I need the interaction of friends; I want the interaction of my friends. Tier […]
Have you told God lately that you love Him? At our Men’s Breakfast recently we started talking about ‘strange times’ and how some of us were not feeling very spiritual (in the absence of church and communion). Others were reviewing their values/priorities (i.e. family as top priority). It was suggested that our current situation could be a prolonged […]
Our son rang me recently to say he had been greatly moved to find out more about his great grandfather who served in the Royal Lancaster Regiment in the first world war and had been praised for gallant and distinguished service by the Secretary of State for war – Winston Churchill. He had signed up […]
This week we will continue to explore 7 ways Jesus showed love, love that we can seek to replicate to those around us. 7. Listening Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, making her stand in the centre. “Teacher,” they said to him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery. In […]
This week we will continue to explore 7 ways Jesus showed love, love that we can seek to replicate to those around us. 6. Sharing As he was walking along the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter), and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea—for they were […]
This week we will continue to explore 7 ways Jesus showed love, love that we can seek to replicate to those around us. 4. Gentleness The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took palm branches and went out to meet him. They kept shouting: […]
This week we will continue to explore 7 ways Jesus showed love, love that we can seek to replicate to those around us. 3. Physical Touch While he was in one of the towns, a man was there who had leprosy[c] all over him. He saw Jesus, fell facedown, and begged him: “Lord, if you are willing, […]
This week we will continue to explore 7 ways Jesus showed love, love that we can seek to replicate to those around us. 2. Compassion “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.Matthew 27:42 […]
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