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Tag: prayer

  • three rings

    It used to be ‘three rings’. ‘Ring ring, ring ring, ring ring’. In the dim and distant past, before mobile phones were a commonplace part of our experience, when people were travelling somewhere and needed to let someone else know that they had arrived safely they would give ‘three rings’. They would dial (probably actually…

  • doubt that is bigger than ants

    A while back I remember reading a little phrase that stuck with me because it needed to be mulled and pondered and reflected on: “Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.” Apparently it was Frederick Buechner who wrote that in Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC. I found it amusing, and…

  • prayer support

    I’ve just been writing my monthly prayer diary, which is sent to a group of people who have offered to pray for me and the Ministry to which God has called me. As I was about to send it out I remembered that my Grandparents told me that they used to pray for me every…

  • s l o w m o t i o n . . .

    I had an interesting experience yesterday. I was preaching at a church where I had previously done a magic show for their leaders and their partners. Yesterday one of them told me that he had taken a video of some of the show, and in particular had a slow motion video of a ‘knife throwing’…

  • praying

    This morning I spent some time at a prayer space at South Woodham Evangelical Church and found it very helpful. During the time several different thoughts occurred to me and a couple of them stuck. One is that I personally find it a lot easier to spend time in prayer if I have activities to engage…

  • short thought

    Yesterday’s bloggage was something of a hairy extinct pachyderm*, wasn’t it? So today I want to give you a very short thought by way of a pome what I writ 16 years ago. I have a little problem with something Jesus said. It’s not that I think he’s wrong, more like a bit misled. You…

  • I was lucky to come third

    Last night was the stage competition for the Mid Essex Magical Society and once again I entered. The some reason this year I was quite nervous. That was not the case in previous years and I couldn’t work out why I was nervous this year. I think it affected my performance a little bit but even…

  • I am a loser

    This pome what I wroted a while back summarises how I feel at the moment: Symbiosis My wife says I’m a loser I’m inclined to think she’s right. I don’t know where my things are but She doesn’t share my plight. Though my keys aren’t where I leave them She always finds them there. Somehow…

  • extending the warranty

    We recently had to buy a fridge freezer and I was rather taken aback as we were buying it to be offered an extended warranty. Didn’t they think it was going to last? And it had a sticker on it saying that there was an extended manufacturer’s warranty on it. So I didn’t buy the…

  • a momentary interlude

    To keep the suspense for my final atonement instalment I am making you wait until next week with a brief momentary interlude: here’s the ‘thought for the week’ that I shared with EBA Ministers this week… Don’t we just love the weather in this country? I’m not talking about any particular type or weather:  just weather…