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Category: free sample of Jesus

  • 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,…

  • When a welcome is not enough

    Many years ago, Sally and I visited a church for a morning service. I won’t embarrass it here by naming it as I would hope that things have changed in the past 30+ years! We were looking for a new church to call our spiritual home, but had to leave soon after the service ended,…

  • welcoming questions and doubts

    I used to think that having questions and doubts was a bad thing: they showed that I lacked faith or was ‘backsliding’. I have come to realise that I was 100% wrong. Questions are good, doubts are good. Yes, really. Questions show that something matters to you. If it didn’t matter, you wouldn’t worry about…

  • new blog post this is

    Ever since I was a ten-year-old who went with his Dad to the cinema to see a new film called ‘Star Wars (a new hope)’ I have been a fan of that film franchise. There’s something about the galactic struggle between the forces of good and evil (or the light and dark side of ‘the…

  • splashes of grace

    On Easter Monday my wife, Sally, and I went for a walk at a local reservoir. It was a mild day and we decided to walk all the way around the reservoir. After a while we stopped and I took this photograph, and then we saw a bench so sat on it to have a…

  • Who is Easter for?

    I have been an ordained Baptist Minister for over 30 years. I have learnt a few things over those years (I would be worried if I hadn’t). I am a different minister today from the rookie who emerged blinking into the daylight of local church life from the low-light environment of a theological training college.…