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Category: blessing

  • teddy bear theology

    A couple of Sundays back we held a wedding blessing in our morning service. It may be old hat to some of you to do things that way, but it’s not something I have ever done before. The wonderful couple [they read my bloggages so I have to say that ;-)] had been married 10…

  • where there is a misquote the sermons flourish

    “Without a vision the people perish.” How many times have you heard that quoted (from the Bible – Proverbs 29:18) in order to support the introduction of or need for a vision / mission statement? I have heard so many sermons on that theme that I am almost willing to submit to them since that…

  • sent too soon

    How often do we do it? We write an email and intend to attach something to it, but before we have had a chance to attach the attachment some primeval urge* within us moves the mouse pointer to hit ‘send’ and it’s gone. Without the attachment. So then we have to send a second email…

  • Speaking baldly

    Yesterday was a Bank Holiday in England and was predicted to be the hottest day of the year so far (not difficult). Sally and I went out in the morning and I went equipped with a cap to stop the top of my head from getting sunburnt in the scorching heat. For those who are…

  • benefit

    There has been a lot of talk recently about Benefits and the ‘reforms’ that are coming into place. Thousands of people are being adversely affected and most of them are vulnerable. The current challenge to Iain Duncan-Smith to live on £53 per week (the new low) is at least amusing, and in reality sobering. If…

  • bloggage forecast

    For the first three days of this week I will be attending the Eastern Baptist Association’s Ministers’ Conference. I always find it a blessing when I attend these conferences – sometimes as much for the conversations between sessions as for the sessions themselves. This time we have some people I am very much looking forward to hearing…

  • Happy New Year

    I pray that you will have a wonderful 2013 and that you will know and experience God’s blessing in all you do.

  • thanks, thanks and thanks again

    Greetings bloggites. I have now started my sabbatical leave and have decided that I will continue to post bloggerel here. There are two reasons: vanity and necessity. The vanity part comes from not wanting to lose any bloggites like you from my list of followers due to inactivity. I love to see the hit ticker…

  • Olympic inspiration

    As a Brit it is very difficult not to be inspired by the efforts of our Olympians. They have been excelling themselves. While it is true that many of our successes have come in sports where you sit down (cycling, rowing, sailing, equestrian, canoeing…) that is not the whole story. Nor does the Medal Table…

  • Bless a bureaucrat day – the sequel

    A couple of years ago I declared the inaugural ‘Bless a Bureaucrat Day’ in support of the many people whose jobs are behind the scenes and who often go unnoticed (unless they have to make an unpopular decision) and unthanked. Following an amazing meeting with some of the senior people at our local Council on…