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  • a compromising position?

    You know how it is, you are having a perfectly normal day when all of a sudden, unannounced and uninvited, your mind is invaded by a song or a piece of music. It is not necessarily something you hear, but it’s been in your subconscious and chooses to surface into your conscious awareness. And you…

  • Smelly Church

    Churches across the UK and across the world have been blessed by exploring the missional concept of ‘Messy Church’. If you don’t know what I am talking about have a look at the website here. We have run versions of Messy Church in our previous church and in our current one. But, inspired by the…

  • sitting on a sofa in the middle of the street

    The churches in Colchester and the surrounding area are in the middle of a fortnight of focused mission activity. For us it began with a community barbecue on our forecourt on Saturday – 500+ burgers given away, live music, face painting for children, a couple of talks, me doing some magic tricks (why did it…

  • churches are female if you are stereotyping

    Tomorrow we have a community barbecue on our church forecourt. We will give away hot dogs and burgers, there will be music, face-painting and even a magician (I wonder who that might be?). One of our members is working flat out to make it all happen (pray for him and the team if you are a…

  • plunging

    Last week I mentioned that I was going to a conference for larger Ministers (see here)… Here are some reflections on that conference that are written as a sort of review: I have often wondered what the collective noun should be for Baptist Ministers. If there isn’t one I would like to suggest ‘plunge’. Last week…

  • does size matter?

    Dearest bloggists I am sorry that last week’s bloggages tailed off, and that this week’s might be somewhat intermittent. At the moment I am so busy that bees are asking me to slow down because I am making them look lazy. I don’t mind being that busy, but I find that while I am able…

  • troubled by halloween

    Halloween troubles me. Not because of the ghosts, ghouls, witches and pumpkins. Nor because I fear that it is a gateway to hell. Not even because it encourages extortion (‘trick or treat?’). What troubles me is that I am not sure of the best way to respond as a Christian. Some churches go all out to…