Tag: god
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change?
Most Mondays will find me sat in my study at home, working on the sermon and service for the coming Sunday. This is something I have started doing since I came to serve Mutley Baptist Church, here in Plymouth (the original Plymouth in the UK). In previous churches and roles I used to prepare on…
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nostalgia and obsolescence
I was chatting with someone today about Tipp-Ex correction fluid. The arrival of word processing on computers and the improved quality of personal printers must surely have had an impact on the sales of correction fluid. If I make a mistake typing I just delete and replace it with the correct word, and with automated…
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watch it
Recently my mother gave me a watch that had belonged to my Great Grandad, Percy. It’s not currently working and I would like to get it repaired (but that’s not what this bloggage is about). It’s not particularly valuable (I’m pretty sure it’s brass, not gold), but it means a lot because it was his.…
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incredible you
The human brain is incredible, isn’t it? I could reel off loads of statistics about it, but I want you to think for a moment about something. Anything. If you’re thinking, “I don’t know what to think about,” then consider your mind magically read. Tadaaa! (Or perhaps I am just playing the probabilities that someone…
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phony
If you play games on your phone you may share a couple of the frustrations I experience. Some games are free to install but they make their money by selling upgrades within the game or getting you to watch adverts (for which they get paid per viewing). They get you interested in the game, but…
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penultimate
Today is the final Sunday and penultimate day of my sabbatical leave. I am quite excited about the prospect of being back in the pulpit* next Sunday. There’s been a lot to reflect on during my sabbatical leave – too much to encapsulate here – but one of the things I have been doing is…
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a gulf, a lake and a national ego
So the current US President has decided, unilaterally, to rename another body of water. Clearly naming water is the most important thing for him to be doing at a time when the war against Iran he started with Israel is having a global impact. But that aside, I am intrigued that he considers renaming things…
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invention is the mother of necessity
For almost all of human history we have stayed close to where we were born. Travel was on foot, latterly on horses or other animals. To get anywhere further away than the visible horizon took ages. Until tracks and roads were established navigation was by reference to the sun (if you could see it) by…
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change? change? change?
Change is inevitable …except from a vending machine That little quip is not original to me and is attributed to Robert C. Gallagher, but I rather like it for several reasons. It makes me smile. The first time I came across it I remember giggling at it as it was funny. Now, the giggle reflex…
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Words
This week I have been mostly writing a novel. It’s a piece of work I started in 2007 and has been mostly dormant over the past couple of decades with occasional bursts of inspiration. I had managed about 14,000 words and reckon it was about half-finished when I resumed this week. We’re now up to…
