Hope4Bath

‘Joy’ has been in short supply throughout the world in the past few months. Sorrow, isolation and separation have been the order of the day. As we come out of lockdown, it is perhaps, therefore, an appropriate time to be positive and to think about ‘JOY’. If we turn to the Bible, we discover a ….  Read More

Paris boasts the champion of all roundabouts! Converging on the Arc de Triomphe are ten streets which merge into ten lanes of traffic – all lanes unmarked. No wonder it is one of the most dangerous intersections in the world. Yet bicycles, motorbikes, mopeds, minis and, of course, the tour buses, take their chances with ….  Read More

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines ….  Read More

At the beginning of this pandemic we were told to socially distance ourselves from one another. This seems to have been changed to a requirement for physical distancing – a significant alteration in terminology. For social distance, isolation, quarantine, or separation are possibly worse for our overall health than the disease they are touted to ….  Read More

Can we have hope in the darkest of times? The answer is yes. David in Psalm 31 verse 24, despite the great distresses he was going through was able to say ‘Be of good courage and He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord’. David trusted in God and in Psalm ….  Read More

It has often been said, ‘Nothing comes cheap in this life’; however, when it comes to obtaining perfect and lasting peace, spiritually speaking, this is an understatement! We must always remember that this peace was made possible at infinite cost to God: ‘In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has ….  Read More

Many people have preached and offered lasting peace to men and women but they have been unable to deliver it. The refreshing message of the Bible is that God, in the Person of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has visited this restless world and ‘preached peace to you who were far off’ Ephesians chapter ….  Read More

The opening chapters of the Bible present to us an idyllic and peaceful scene. God created the heavens and the earth. He also created man and woman and placed them in a beautiful Garden. Indeed, everything that He had made was very good. Sadly, Adam and Eve disobeyed God; therefore, God drove them out of ….  Read More

The historian, Edward Gibbon lived from 1737 to 1794 and his most famous work was his study into the Roman Empire which was published as ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ and in it he traced the reasons for the demise of one of the greatest, most prosperous and well ….  Read More

‘Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the ….  Read More