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Category: God’s love

  • God’s trophy cabinet

    I put my size eleven feet in it recently. I forgot to do something I said I would do and as a result some people were upset. What would you do in those circumstances? Shrug, accept that we are all fallible and carry on… Worry about it and make yourself upset… Write a note of…

  • a model citizen

    I have bought a boat. It is a sailing boat. A friend needed to make some space and, having enjoyed sailing it with him in the past, I offered to buy it from him. Yes, she’s a model yacht, but she’s still a big vessel (63 inches in length). Yesterday we rigged her for the first…

  • smell you later

    A couple of days ago a chilli con carne was being prepared in our house. Actually technically it was in the kitchen on the stove, not all over the house. All the ingredients were prepared, put into the pan to cook, and left to simmer gently. The family settled down to watch part two of…

  • Christmas presence

    As Christmas day gallops gleefully towards us I thought it may be time for a more serious reflection than some of the fluffy frivolity of recent days. So here goes… The ten best things of this Christmas so far (in no particular order): Hosting carol services and nativity plays for a local school on our…

  • from minor to major

    Tonight I am speaking at Essex University Christian Union. They have asked me to speak about Hosea, one of the so-called ‘Minor Prophets’ from the Old Testament. I think that the label ‘Minor’ is very unfair to these people. Just because their recorded words and actions are fewer than the biggies like Isaiah and Jeremiah,…

  • shivering

    When was the last time a shiver went down your spine? What caused it? Was it the cold, something spooky or a reaction to something you ate? I find that often an awareness of God literally sends a shiver down my spine. It is almost as if I can feel God’s Spirit at work in…

  • labelled

    So… what sort of person are you? There are all sorts of ways in which we categorise people. We paste labels onto each other like we are tagging photos on Facebook. “Happy” “Grumpy” “Cool” “Geek” “Clever” “Daft” “Not a morning person” (me at the moment!) …and so on. You know what I am talking about.…

  • doctor, doctor…

    In preparation for an operation next month I visited my Doctor’s surgery this morning for a barrage of pre-op tests. They had to do it at my GP’s because the hospital where the operation will take place is in London. Last week the hospital phoned me while I was in a friend’s car, being driven…