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Tag: preaching

  • Fed up with sermons

    Yes, really. I am fed up with sermons. That’s probably not what a Regional Minister ought to have as the title for one of his bloggages. But I am honestly fed up with sermons. Not, I hasten to add, in the usual sense of that phrase! (Put the stones down…) I am fed up with…

  • The sermon of the surmounter*

    I have just come back from a 24 hour retreat. We spent time reflecting on and listening to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). It is a sermon that is full of wisdom, insight, challenge, encouragement and even a little humour. The way my brain works, I wondered what a modern-day version of the…

  • some assembly required

    I have been given two books. The lovely Sally, my wife, went to a charity shop yesterday and came back with a carrier bag of books (they are selling them by the bag now!) and two were for me. One was a book of card tricks, and I won’t be sharing any quotes from that…

  • news

    I think I may have mentioned before that I used to love the start of the new term at school. It was the newness of everything that I loved, particularly at the start of a new school year but also at the start of the term. I used to love having new pens and other…

  • the failing of fear

    Yesterday evening a Minister friend of mine posted on Facebook about how poor their sermon had been. I felt immediate empathy for them because sermons are quite personal things, and if they are not as good as we would like there is a sense that we have let God down, the church down and ourselves…