Lightfoot Lane Posts

Today's notes start with the question: "Do we have faith?" For a long time I struggled to understand what people meant by faith. They would talk about having more faith, or less faith. In Matthew 17:20 Jesus talks about faith that is so small that it's only as big as...

This morning we awoke to the sound of our boiler - it wasn’t its usual sound but a sound we have heard before. It’s the sound it makes when the outside pipes are frozen and the boiler is being put under pressure! If we left it like that we would be in trouble -...

"Pressure pushing down on me, Pressing down on you... It's the terror of knowing what the world is about; watching some good friends screaming 'Let me out'" The lyrics from the Queen song express the sometimes unbearable pressure of our own life and the mess of the...

Loss is painful. Look around you and you'll see it. Perhaps you don't need to look around, perhaps you are dealing with it now. Perhaps your loss is the "big issue" that you are praying for. A natural response to loss is to ask "why?" There are many examples in the...

Sometimes God orchestrates things behind the scenes that we don't see until we are in the middle of them. This weekend we gave every family a gift to give away to someone else as part of our 40th Anniversary celebrations. This week in catching the wave we are thinking...

When our children were in primary school there was a motto on the wall TEAM - an acronym for 'Together Everyone Achieves More!' When we work together we can all achieve more. As Christians our purpose is to make the name of Jesus known - this is far more effective...

There’s a joke about a young man who would not take his headphones off, even whilst he was having his hair cut. Once, whilst at the barbers, he fell asleep. The barber carefully removed his headphones to cut his hair, but also sneaked a listen to what was playing....

I found this thought quite a challenge today. "Worship isn't just about what we do in church - it is an attitude of serving God at all times and in all we do." In many ways it was a very ordinary Wednesday yet there have been all sorts of opportunities to serve God. A...

Hold your breath as long as you can. Wait till it seems your lungs are bursting and then let your breath go in one big burst. Now slow all that down and take notice as you breathe slowly and deeply. Enjoy the freedom, the blessing of breath. It is keeping you alive....

Did you know that Jesus prayed for you to know the Father and the Son who is Jesus himself? That what we see in one of our readings for today - John 17:3: 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. This...

Wow! I am the child of the King. I once saw a little girl with a t-shirt that said on the back “do you know who my Dad is?” On the front it said "I am a King's Kid!" I loved her confidence and the reality is that we all can know this confidence today, if we will only...

I recently saw the re-entry capsule that astronaut Tim Peake returned to earth in. And I also experienced it as a virtual reality journey. All the wonders of space and then the fearful wonder of returning home to planet earth. Journeys can be like this. I love the...