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Tag: church

  • organic music

    I feel the need for some church-related silliness. These actually happened: I was there (as a teenager). A church organist decided to play some more contemporary ‘voluntaries’ in the services and discovered that some enterprising Christians had written some lyrics for well-known tunes. Sadly, few people in the church knew of the worshipful lyrics, so…

  • the inevitability of disappointing church services?

    I’m currently searching for inspiration for our Mothering Sunday service this week. I find that this is one of the most difficult services of the year to prepare. That’s not because the subject is difficult. Neither is it because I don’t have any ideas. It’s because it is one of the services where different people…

  • setting boundaries

    Isn’t it amazing how God draws things to our attention when he’s trying to tell us something? Well, perhaps it’s not amazing because he often does it. It’s more that I’m amazed that he persists with me. Last week I was sent an e-mail about something I had shared with the church a long time…

  • Post the first from the conference (see yesterday)

    So, the conference has begun. I am not sure what the collective noun for Baptist Ministers would be: A splash? A hubbub? An ostentatious humility? A dissent? Whatever it is, we have got one. The collective noun for ‘Christians’ is ‘church’. We are church when we are together. At this conference we are a temporary…

  • cynicism

    Is it just me, or are scams getting more elaborate? Are criminal minds getting more intelligent? Look at how many super-villains have PhD qualifications: Dr Evil, Dr No, Dr Octopus, Dr Doofenshmirtz and even Professor Moriarty! Where are they getting these qualifications? Yesterday I heard of an elaborate scam where someone contacts the victim and…

  • news

    I think I may have mentioned before that I used to love the start of the new term at school. It was the newness of everything that I loved, particularly at the start of a new school year but also at the start of the term. I used to love having new pens and other…

  • costly communion

    During a visit to Oxford my wife Sally went to a the Christian bookshop and came out with a book that is full of the theology for me. ‘When Clergymen Ruled the Earth‘ by Simon Jenkins is a book of cartoons based around church life, and particularly ministers/vicars. I’ve been enjoying some of them this…

  • appreciating assets

    It’s nearly here. I am getting quite excited, and it’s not even the day yet. I have to admit I have been doing one or two sneaky things to prepare for the big event. I have been doing a little bit of shopping to make sure that I have everything I need. I have been writing a…

  • love lumps

    I spent a lot of the past few days with a lump in my throat. It has been quite emotional. Watching my Dad get ordained in the Church of England was very moving – not really because of the service but because of what it represented. I know that he has felt called to be…

  • a fun bloggage

    My bloggerel seems to be influenced by breakfast cereal at the moment. This morning as I was munching on my non-brand wheat-based biscuits I glanced at a box of crispy rice cereal that was left on the table. On the front was an advert for a ‘fun colour me in activity’ on the back of…