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Tag: grace

  • plugging away

    We had a wonderful day at our church yesterday (Sunday). In the morning service we baptised Simon, who has only recently become a follower of Jesus, and he told us his moving testimony about his life and becoming a believer. We also had Sylvia, who was baptised in 1959 but didn’t have the opportunity to…

  • in a spin

    I have been preparing for Sunday evening and looking at Acts chapter 23. This is what happened previously, as described in Acts chapter 22: Paul had been attacked by a mob in Jerusalem and rescued in the nick of time by some Roman soldiers, who had to carry him into the barracks because of the hostile…

  • d-e-r dum, d-e-r dum, d-e-r dum, dum dum, dum dum, dum dum dum dum danaaah!

    [a poor written representation of the Jaws soundtrack!] Just when you least expect it, when your guard is down, when you are looking in the other direction… he leaps out and knocks you sideways. No, I am not talking about some sort of predator or assassin. I am talking about God. Perhaps I should explain…

  • tickly coughs

    I have a tickly cough. The back of my throat gets irritated/tickled and it causes a cough reflex to try to get rid of the sensation. It’s irritating. It’s not debilitating. It’s not desperately uncomfortable. It won’t require a trip to the hospital or even the doctor. And I have some medicine to soothe and…

  • em-fassis

    No, you aren’t experiencing some sort of strange cyber double vision. The image in this bloggage* is the category cloud from the blog. I try to tag most of my bloggages. Apparently it makes it easier for people to find me. But it also reveals, through this clever cloud thingy, the emphases in my reflections.…

  • in finite resources

    We are constantly reminded that this planet’s resources are finite. There is only a limited amount of oil and gas in the ground. There is only so much ore to be mined. There are only so many things that can be made. Even the Sun will run out eventually (although not for a loooong time!).…

  • we’re not worthy

    Some of you may remember that line from the film Wayne’s World. If you’ve never seen it you have missed a funny film with some classic moments (Bohemian Rhapsody in a little blue car anyone?). Wayne and his friend Garth are fans of rock music and have their own cable TV show called Wayne’s World…

  • reflecting on two films

    On Saturday evening Sally and I went to the cinema to watch ’12 Years a Slave’. It is very difficult to describe my emotions afterwards as I felt that I had been assaulted by a vile experience. That is not a criticism of the film – I thought it was incredible, powerful, moving and engaging.…

  • inspired by grace

    On Sunday evening at Colchester Baptist Church we will be having another of our film nights. This time we will be watching ‘Invictus’, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The film is based around the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, but it is as much about rugby as ‘Gone With The Wind’ is about…

  • you say tomarto…

    I had a giggle this morning when an interview went a bit wrong. Chris Evans (BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show) was interviewing the American author of a Txt Dictionary and decided to ask her what something meant. I will transliterate so it makes sense. The phrase he asked about began ‘two bee zed…’ (2BZ) This…