Category: God’s call
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the best laid plans
Today I am having a day off, and it is proving to be quite a mixed event. In anticipating the day ahead of me I had some plans in mind of what I was going to do to relax. And since I woke up other things have started to invade the space I have today…
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bother
“I’m all hot and bothered!” “I can’t be bothered!” “Oh, bother!” The catchphrase of Catherine Tate’s teenage character, Lauren, was, “Am I bovvered though?” All of these expressions suggest that being bothered is a bad thing. They suggest that it is something that interrupts and distracts from our priorities. It is something that causes distress.…
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who do you want to see?
Responses to yesterday (if you don’t know it, it may help you to read yesterday’s bloggage before you carry on) were a bit interesting. After telling our church that I have been called to a new role there was a stunned silence. I could see on people’s faces that they were a bit surprised / shocked…
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be bald, be strong, for the Lord your God is with you…
Yesterday I posted this picture on Facebook with the caption ‘Nick was wondering whether God had misheard his prayers for boldness’. The pun was intentional. It was inspired (?) by the preparation I had been doing for Sunday evening, looking at Acts 4 and noticing that the Christians prayed for boldness. It was in the…
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Freshly found fragments from Genesis 6
“Ahem” “Eh? What? Who’s that?!” “Ahem, it’s God.” “Oh. Hello.” “I’d like you to do something for me.” “Of course. Anything. You name it, I’ll do it.” “Wonderful. I would like you to build me a boat.” “A boat? You want to go sailing?” “No. A big boat.” “A big boat. Here, in the desert?”…
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unmission
I have just finished reading another book for my Sabbatical: The Fourfold Leadership of Jesus by Andrew Watson. The book has a chequered history. Not the publication, the actual copy. It was a gift to me from a group of people I served while working for the Baptist Union of Great Britain, over four years…
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outside the door
It is scary visiting some people in their offices. Waiting outside you feel nervous, sweaty-palmed and experience what the more uncouth among us call ‘SBT’. (For those of a delicate disposition you can ignore this acronym but if you are curious and can’t work it out, it’s set out at the bottom of the page*.)…
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when I’m calling you oo oo oo oo oo oo
“If you can be happy doing anything else, do it!” Those were the encouraging words of my Minister when I spent some time talking with him as a teenager who was exploring the possibility that God wanted me to be a Minister too. He was trying to express to me how it is crucial to…
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>don’t miss the important details
>Last Sunday evening I began the service by referring to Isaiah 6 (the first half). It struck me as I was preparing that I often jump over the first phrase in order to consider the vision of God and how he cleansed and commissioned Isaiah. In doing so I miss an important detailIndeed the passage…
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you are eminently suitable
I have just watched the first of four DVDs that Sally got for me from Blockbuster (£10 for 4 films for 4 nights – not bad!). It was The Men Who Stare At Goats. If you have not seen it I won’t spoil it by telling you about it, save that I found it hilarious that…
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