Dec 2, 2023 | Christian Dating and faith, Christian faith
Just Listen – by Sheila Jacobs Neglecting relationship Just Listen – I don’t know about you, but my own relationship with God has tended to fluctuate in recent years according to the amount of pressure in my life – the pandemic didn’t help, of course. But...
Aug 12, 2022 | Christian Dating and faith, Christian faith
The Art of Waiting By Sheila Jacobs Once, when praying about a situation in my life, I had a ‘picture’. In this picture, I saw a bus that just went round in a big circle, finishing up at the same bus stop. I realised I hadn’t actually checked the destination on the...
Jul 19, 2022 | Christian Dating, Christian Dating and faith, Christian faith
Good Friends and the Art of Taking Things Slowly By Sheila Jacobs My mother died in October 2021. She’d had dementia and other health issues for a long time, and had lived in a care home for thirteen and a half years. Someone had warned me that although you ‘lose’...
May 25, 2022 | Christian faith
Are you praying? The English pastor and evangelist FB Meyer said, “The greatest tragedy is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer”. Sometimes we become jaded about prayer because we don’t see immediate answers or the answers we wanted. Then disappointment...
Feb 19, 2021 | Christian faith
Refining The Gold A wedding ring is usually made up on 14ct gold. 58.5% of it is pure gold and the rest is a mix of other metals, ‘impurities’, including nickel, copper and zinc. If the gold is melted over considerable heat, the impurities within it rise to the...
Jan 28, 2021 | Christian faith
Please Pray I was with my home group leader (before lockdown 3!) recently sharing a time of prayer. We were praying for what we do with our lives-her as a GP and me running this business-and where God may want to use us in the future. As we were praying for...
