Build wise

Luke 6.17-22  Luke 6.46-49  It is a perennial news story.  And it is about  brand-new houses built on a flood plain. All starts out as leafy, beautiful and hopeful. Then the summer goes,  and the season turns to storms ; yet still life goes on. But one year the rains come down  heavier than before. The outcome is inevitable;  since water  literally gurgles out of the ground  leaving incensed home [...]

Jeremiah’s Promises

Jeremiah 36.1-7 (p798) Jeremiah 31.31- 37 (p793)   Promises! Promises! Promises! If there is one word that can sum up this year politically it is promises. And whether they will be fulfilled remains to be seen.   Yet life is full of promises which are not quite all that they seem. The small print in [...]