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Tag: prayer

  • valuing prayers

    valuing prayers

    You may recall (if you are a long term member of this parish) that I wrote some bloggages last year about our new church values. You can see the introductory one here and then follow the subsequent ones to see them all and some further thoughts about each one. If you don’t want to bother…

  • angry

    There’s some good advice: “Don’t drive angry.” Putting yourself in charge of a ton or so of metal that can reach speeds of 70 mph (or more if you break speed limits) while your emotions are in a high state of agitation and adrenaline is coursing through your veins is not wise. But I want…

  • prayse

    Continuing my apparently occasional series on praying that began with the buffet I reach the more well-known subject of ‘praise’. I have to confess that in more naive times I wondered why we should praise God: not because he is not praiseworthy but for two other reasons. Reason the first – if he is GOD,…

  • lament

    This is the next in the slightly-less-frequent-than-I-had-hoped series of bloggages about prayer, beginning with buffet. Do explore the others if you fancy expanding your experience of praying. This one is, I confess, one that is mostly ignored in my tradition of church (Baptist). But I think we need to recover our ability to lament. Laments…

  • more from the buffet

    Continuing some musings about prayer, here is another of my categories of prayer: is there anybody there PRAYER? This sort of prayer can be the beginning of a relationship. It is a tentative exploration of whether there is a God and hoped-for responses range from a gentle feeling of reassurance through to a full-on multisensory…

  • buffet

    Imagine that you are staying at a hotel. Breakfast is included in the price you are paying and, after a good night’s sleep, you get ready for the day and head down to the restaurant where there is a wonderful breakfast buffet spread across lots of stations. You look at the wonderful variety of food…

  • armour-plated praying

    This bloggage was first written as a ‘Thought for the week’ sent to all of the ministers of the Eastern Baptist Association… Isn’t it interesting how easily we can overlook things? I have recently been reminded that when reading the New Testament letters it is important to  remember whether they were written to an individual…

  • faq

    Picking up a thought from yesterday’s bloggage got me wondering whether we ask the wrong questions and then are surprised and disappointed at the answers we get. Yesterday one of the questions that I suggested is thrown up by the apostle Paul pleading in vain for God to take away the “thorn in his flesh”…

  • praying mysteriously

    praying mysteriously

    The following bloggage began as a ‘Thought for the week’ I shared with the Ministers of the Eastern Baptist Association. ​Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.” (Ephesians 6:18) I don’t know about you, but I still find prayer to be a deep mystery. We know that God…

  • Holy Hamsters

    This is Sandy. She was the first of our family hamsters. As you can see she was a very holy, prayerful hamster. . It may be that she was actually eating a sunflower seed, but it looks like a praying hamster to me (as opposed to a praying mantis). I use that image to illustrate…