This is a talk about Encountering God, quite a few people said they found it helpful so I'm just posting it here. No power point slides with this one. Talk starts about 17 mins in. https://fb.watch/qgCrjxcuFi
The Immense Love of God
This post is about the immense love of God and how we make it smaller than it actually is. Thinking about the story Jesus told about the wheat and the weeds in Matthew chapter 13 (24-30, 36-43). I want to write about a love that encompasses all: a love that does not wish to reject... Continue Reading →
The Bard’s to blame: how a poke from a long dead poet provokes a weight loss journey
I'm on a diet! Botheration - there I've said it - it's out there publicly. Grrr! I love food and hate diets. So why? Well, the obvious reason is there is more of me than there used to be hence I can't fit most of my wardrobe plusI know there are health issues in the... Continue Reading →
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon – a Book Review
Well this was an absolute joy of a book. Set in the heatwave of 1976 on a claustrophic middle class housing estate, we meet the neighbours who live in The Avenue through the eyes of two young girls who decide their summer holiday project will be 'looking for God'. Firstly the era was captured perfectly:... Continue Reading →
Take 6 bricks…
Jesus told a lot of stories and performed actions that were often all about how to make a lot out of not very much: the mustard seed of faith, the meal for 5,000 from a few loaves and fishes. If only Jesus had had Lego! I came across this extraordinary piece of information in Lego... Continue Reading →
Where is God in all this?
Whether it's the appalling human atrocities committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine or the fear that families here are chosing between staying warm or being fed or the existential climate crisis (will we still have a planet fit for habitation in even 5 years time?) - the question above is the obvious one being asked... Continue Reading →
Deer Strike at 70mph and thoughts about Providence
We have just repatriated our car from Devon. It was delivered to us yesterday. A week after after our evening rescue from a lay by on the A30 twenty five miles south of Exeter. (A big shout out to Highfield Garage Exeter, they were superb). We had been on our way to Cornwall and making... Continue Reading →
‘Where the light fell’ by Philip Yancey – a review
Philip Yancey is possibly one of the most well know Christian writers in my life time. With a huge back catalogue of best-selling books such as 'Disappointment with God', 'The Jesus I never knew' and 'What's so amazing about Grace?' he has done more than many to drag the hardest questions of life and faith... Continue Reading →
Scarred, Sacred and Scared
This is a reflection on three words that describe the whole world as we are currently experiencing it, with particular reference to the conflict in Ukraine, suggesting how a story from Genesis points towards the hope for all humankind. SCARRED This is the first word that describes the world as we experience it. Scarred means... Continue Reading →
Church: why we are meant to be ‘all at sea’ and not ‘five miles above contradiction’.
Two images of travel have been much in my mind lately. The first is of a sea voyage in a sturdy but smallish vessel. The waves and the wind and currents are very powerful. The crew and the boat's captain are simply (and sometimes literally) immersed into the mess and mayhem of life's experience. Yet... Continue Reading →
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