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Category: Jesus

  • underwhelmed by Jesus

    On Sunday evenings at our church we are exploring names of God. This Sunday I have the joy of preaching on the name ‘Jesus’. I was really looking forward to this and happily pulled loads of reference books off my shelves expecting to be overwhelmed by the amount of information about the name ‘Jesus’. I…

  • pride in the name of…

    Intermittent posts at present because I are lurgified. There’s a nasty little bacterium that is making his way through the members of our family. He started with Sally (sinusitis) and then found a spot in my throat that he likes (pharyngitis). He now seems to be making his home in Hannah’s throat too. Yesterday I…

  • Ha le lu jah

    Sorry to anyone who came to the blog yesterday hoping for new material and found the same old drivel. I had a day off and that included blogging! However, I am now back in harness and have Handel’s Messiah playing in the background as I prepare our All Age Nativity service for this Sunday morning.…

  • >all by myself, don’t wanna be all by myself…

    >I have been deserted. Sally has taken the children and gone to stay with her mother. Actually it’s not as dramatic as it sounds – they have gone for the weekend while I hold the fort here. I was a bit worried a couple of nights ago, though, as I was rubbing my head in…

  • making a splash

    The story is told of a Catholic priest, Anglican vicar and Baptist Minister who were arguing about which was the true church: “It’s the Church of England,” said the vicar, “Because we have our origins in the King of England, Henry VIII.” “But the origins of the Catholic Church go right back to St Peter,”…

  • >balance your humours

    >I have been reading some books set in medieval times. In it there are many references to people having different humours. The thinking was that we need a balance of different ‘humours’ in our bodies for us to function at our best, they affect the way that we feel. The four are: blood, phlegm, yellow bile,…

  • Where’s Jesus?

    When I was in hospital my dad and my sister came all the way to London from South Devon to see me. I was so blessed just by that, but they also brought goodies to keep me sane and sweets to sustain me in the absence of decent food in the hospital. Among the goodies…

  • optimistically disappointed or disappointedly optimistic?

    I am delighted to say that I am finally back home. I have had some new holes made in my body that I didn’t have last Friday. In order to patch them up the hospital have stapled me back together. The repairs look like I have some small pasties breaking through the surface of my skin!…

  • the secret of God’s timing

    Isn’t God’s timing fantastic? I can’t give details but I have just experienced that this morning – where someone’s generosity led to someone else receiving a gift at exactly the right time when only that person and God knew of the need. I was the courier in the experience and left rejoicing and laughing at…

  • mixed up and ambivalent

    I have just come back from a visit to the International Christian Resources Exhibition at Sandown Park Racecourse (!) in Esher. I am in two minds about it. I went with our Church Secretary as there were several things we wanted to look at from different suppliers and it is easier to see them face to…