Have you ever been homesick? Perhaps you experienced homesickness as a child while attending a camp? Christian believers are very much a pilgrim people who find themselves homesick for heaven. As the writer to the Hebrews reminds us: ‘….here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come’ (Hebrews 13:14).

Having spent so many years and decades enjoying relatively easy global travel, recent months of limited travel during the pandemic have been rather unsettling for all of us. We can’t get to where we want to go – not without trouble and difficulty

The Queen’s Coronation in 1953 was the first coronation in history to be a truly global spectacle. It was broadcast in 39 languages to 200 million viewers worldwide.

You can tell quite a lot about a person by their tastes – what they enjoy and what they prize. In some societies, you can place a person’s social background and upbringing pretty precisely by those kinds of choices.

One of the hardest things about the Christian life is that we do not see the full outworking of the plan of God – of the promises of God – this side of the grave. We see indications and glimpses.