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Category: free sample of Jesus

  • Shhhhhh

    Last week I went on a week’s retreat. It was a time of spiritual refreshment and was using poetry writing and some gentle artwork as ways of reflecting and meditating. I was very excited about the poetry part of it as it’s part of what I am trying to recover in my routine of reflection…

  • blended thoughts

    In the novel what I am wrote (you’ll want to read it cos I’m so good at Englishing) the characters visit an indoor skydiving centre. I won’t bore you with the plot (you’ll have to read it to experience the boredom properly) but it has offered me some alternative ways of looking at things and…

  • Doing your job too well

    All of the UPVC windows on the manse where we live have lockable handles (potential burglars please note and don’t bother). They’re the sort that open and close when you push the button, unless you lock them: when the button doesn’t push in. I don’t know if they were all fitted around the same time…

  • how large are you?

    Many years ago, when I was serving as minister of a different church, I went to a conference for ministers of larger churches (not larger ministers of churches). There was a lot that was good and interesting, and a few things that bothered me (such as the lack of any female ministers) and a sense…

  • I’ve been tagged

    During my sabbatical leave I am spending most of my Sunday mornings overseas: I am travelling across the River Tamar and joining with Saltash Baptist Church. Contrary to humorous mythology you don’t need a passport, but you do need to pay for the use of the Tamar Bridge – to cross back into Devon. (I’m…

  • Feeling the heat?

    Last week Sally and I went on a camping holiday, staying at a touring park near Newquay in Cornwall. (That is the reason for the bloggage silence last week). If you live in UK you know that last week was HOT. Staying in a tent meant that there wasn’t really any escape from the heat,…

  • Words

    This week I have been mostly writing a novel. It’s a piece of work I started in 2007 and has been mostly dormant over the past couple of decades with occasional bursts of inspiration. I had managed about 14,000 words and reckon it was about half-finished when I resumed this week. We’re now up to…

  • people who live in glass houses…

    To prepare myself for my sabbatical leave I created a series of brief Bible readings and reflections-one for each day. They’re based around our six values as a church. I made them available to our church, and if you’re interested you can follow them here. Today’s reaching was a short extract from the start of…

  • what’s the point of shouting?

    As I sit in my office at the church building where I serve I can hear a man shouting very loudly in the street outside. I can’t hear what he is bellowing but his tone is very aggressive and I can hear a female voice being drowned out by his shouts. It is distressing to…

  • is equality possible?

    I thought I would offer a controversial heading to this bloggage by way of click-bait – getting you wondering what I might possibly be thinking… We have human rights legislation that enshrines principles of equality in law. I think that there is a general assumption that equality is ‘a good thing’. But is it possible,…