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Category: grace

  • When you cancel and are blessed by the response

    Mobile blogging. Just when you thought you were safe because I’m not near my computer… I’ve already had an interesting morning. Up earlier than usual so I could go to the place where I’d booked my car in for some work. I allowed 30 minutes to get across town and needed just 7 because it…

  • unwelcome guests

    We have recently had a lodger with us. They have not been paying anything for the privilege, and indeed made a bit of a mess. So we had to evict them. That was easier said than done. The lodger was a mouse. Most of the time the only evidence of his/her stay with us was…

  • a new catchphrase

    I have a new catchphrase. No, not ‘Nice to see you, to see you… nice’ or ‘Just like that’. It sits alongside a phrase I tend to use a lot, which I coined back in 2010. Regular bloggites will already know what it is: We are called to be ‘free samples of Jesus’. If we…

  • stumpbusting

    Our stumps are being busted today. I wonder what that sentence means to you. Some of you may be thinking it’s medical, dental, mis-typing, ‘yoof-speek’, or just ‘confused’. Others will have jumped to the right conclusion (probably guided by the photo): people are coming with a machine to chomp up the tree stumps in our…

  • intermittence

    Last week a second-hand game arrived for my son’s X-Box360. It did not seem to work. I tried running it on many occasions and only twice did it actually work. That was very frustrating. I think it would have been easier to accept if it had not worked at all, but for it to work…

  • whinge-o-matic 6000

    Late in the afternoon I finally get around to putting fingers to keyboard to launch yet another bloggage onto the unsuspecting world. Today has been a very mixed day. It started with a pastoral visit / breakfast on the beach at Brightlingsea. Also featuring have been a number of different emails, phone calls and taking…

  • flagging

    What a mistake to make! Putting the South Korean Flag on the screen next to the pictures of the North Korean Women’s Football Team at the Olympics. The press have made a big deal of it. The BBC news had it as their headline this morning, reporting on how offended the North Koreans were. There…

  • the parable of the lost pen

    There was a man who had a favourite pen. It was not an expensive pen, but it wrote nicely and he had bought some refills for it so he could continue to use it for a long time as well as being more environmentally friendly. One day, when he was looking to write something with…

  • what a weekend

    This past weekend has been full of significant events. Very edited highlights follow: On Saturday I attended the reopening of our local Salvation Army premises following a significant refit. It is very impressive and a great improvement on what they had. I particularly liked the prayer that asked that the walls would soon be scuffed…

  • amaaaazing!

    Sunday morning promises to be amazing. Five people will be witnessing to their faith in Jesus Christ in Believer’s Baptism. I LOVE baptising people: it is one of the privileges and highlights of being a Minister (there are a lot!). It’s not so much the physical act of baptising someone, although the child in me…