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Tag: Jesus

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • mysterious

    This week we went up to Lancashire to visit our older daughter and her wife and I was confused to find pools of water on the pavement. What were these strange phenomena? What could be causing them? While we were at the railway station waiting for our train to begin our return journey water started…

  • 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…

  • how large are you?

    Many years ago, when I was serving as minister of a different church, I went to a conference for ministers of larger churches (not larger ministers of churches). There was a lot that was good and interesting, and a few things that bothered me (such as the lack of any female ministers) and a sense…

  • 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…

  • Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

    One of the greatest songs of all time, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen opens with these questions. I recently had an experience that led me to ask similar questions about myself. In the summer I was interviewed on zoom for a magazine. It was a fun interview and the interviewer said some kind things about me.…