Ever since boyhood I have been fascinated by watching craftsmen at work; a carpenter, a bricklayer, a painter, an artist at his easel. People using materials and tools to mend or make something. Admiring their skills I dreamed of copying them and imagined myself becoming like them. The variety and volume of creative hobbies indicates the inherent human desire to create and the deep satisfaction...

When leaving a certain hospital at the end of a kindly visit, a consultation, a treatment or surgery on arriving at the Exit there stands a reassuring caption in capital letters “GOD BE WITH YOU”. At the farewell service in the village chapel before I left for South Africa the congregation joined hands and sang ‘God be with you ‘til we meet again’. If we are asked to pray for someone absent we...

Vast sums of money and a great deal of attention is given to the care of our body to keep it healthy, beautify it, and clothe it; providing employment for the healthcare specialist, beautician, designer and manufacturer. Comparable attention is given to the development of our mind through the education process, taking us from kindergarten to university, or as far as our mental ability and credit...

‘He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does.’ Eph.2:10 TM When you think of religion what pops up on your mental screen first – the picture of a church, or an unattractive list of Do’s and Don’ts, or an image of elaborate vestments and rituals, or a gallery of pious, but stern faces? In contrast Paul pictures a creative partnership with Christ in the work he is doing....