Tag Archives: gratitude

Appreciation

In “The Five Love Languages” Gary Chapman talks about five different ways in which we give and receive love. Words, Touch, Time, Gifts, and Acts of service. For some of us words are most important in the expression of love, especially words of affirmation, encouragement, and building up. For others it is touch – holding […]

February 6, 2022 – 1:20 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Exiles and Foreigners

A couple of years ago I was in Lubambashi airport on the way home from a two week trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. We were already running a day late, because of a failure of a connecting flight the previous day, and there was some doubt as to whether or not we had […]

October 15, 2019 – 4:45 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Jumping from 20,000 feet

Do you know the song, “He jumped without a parachute from twenty thousand feet”? Well, I think they’re going to have to rewrite it. I was reading this morning on the BBC News website that yesterday a man called Luke Aikens did exactly this. After 2 years training and preparation, he jumped out of an […]

July 31, 2016 – 11:42 am | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Faithful Generosity

So Christmas has come and gone, most of the decorations are down and homes have been found for the presents we have been given and, if we’re really organised, we’ve written the thank you letters. It can be a bit of a challenge that, can’t it. I have to confess that in our house we’ve […]

January 12, 2014 – 5:31 pm | By tim | Posted in River Church | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)