Category: free sample of Jesus

  • how do you read the Bible?

    How do you read the Bible? That question has a range of answers from the simple: “You open the book and read the words on the pages” to the complex: “You need to understand the culture surrounding the events and you need to understand the form of literature that you are reading.” Actually both are…

  • a rANT against violence 

    Over recent weeks and months there seems to have been an escalation in hatred, violence and bloodshed across the world. It may just be a perception-thing, and the situation may not be worse than what I hesitate to call ‘normal’, but there have been so many atrocities. How do you feel about it? I have…

  • episode 5

  • view from my pew 8

    Dear Internet I wish to register a complaint. Some people can’t make up their minds. At a recent church service I sat in my usual pew, in the row behind Mrs Higginbotham. When she got up to sing in the first song I noticed that the poor lady had got her skirt tucked into her…

  • episode 4

  • a tidy desk is a sign of…

    It’s been said that “a tidy desk is a sign of a tidy mind”. Or how about, “A tidy desk is a sign of a full desk drawer.” But Albert Einstein apparently said that, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” This week, among…

  • view from my pew 7

    Dear Internet I have often been asked what my full name is, and I always answer that it is Mr QR Grenville-Stubbs. Some more persistent (and, in my opinion, far too familiar) people ask me what the Q and the R stand for. I don’t know why they feel they should know this information but…

  • Episode 3

  • view from my pew 6

    Dear Internet I read Nick’s article on the tennis courts at Wimbledon (for some reason he calls it a ‘bloggage’ – you can read it here). It made me think about my own sporting achievements which, if I am honest, were quite a few years ago. When I was at Primary School I was entered…

  • Episode 2