Modern pictures often portray contrasting colours as do many manufactured things, it is the fashion.  They rather hit you in the eye, whites and yellows, set against blues, blacks and reds.   This is particularly the case in advertising, as they aim to grab our attention. Our reading today in Galatians does not set colours in contrast – it sets human behaviour!  It describes the good things in human ...

Our first reading (1 Chron. Ch 18 & 19) details David’s extensive conquests – even to the river Euphrates (18 v.3) and one wonders how far the nation will extend to in the kingdom age, the time when, as Isaiah was caused to prophesy, “The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom” (35 ...