I have been thinking recently about the effect Covid-19 might have on the internet and social media platforms - how as more and more people are confined in their homes the demand for connectivity with the outside world will increase.

I was invited to speak yesterday at an event in Bibury and on being given the schedule a few days before, saw that my 'turn' would come between two readings of Scripture - Ephesians 3:14-21 and John 17:20-26. Two wonderful prayers in God's Word - actually two wonderful promises to the bride of Christ.

I was reading this morning in John 18 and came to verse 36. Jesus states clearly here that His kingdom is NOT of this world. That word 'world' means 'cosmos or material universe' and knowing that, we begin to understand what Jesus meant.

Happy new year!! We have so many new things happening this year that it is almost impossible to know where to start!

I must love with the love with which God first loved me; a love that moves, that acts, that has effect. I must love in word and in deed - love because I understand the enormity of the mercy that saved me and the grace that keeps me.