Prayer is definitely a battle at the moment… and not in the spiritual warrior kind of way. I don’t know why, but I seem to be going through a phase of finding it…
July 2011
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So, as I approach my delayed (possibly last) meeting with my vocational advisor I feel ready for a battle! not really sure why. But I think it has something to do with the…
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Ok, so, a quick update on the whole mystery illness thing… (total aside but Martyn Joseph wrote a song called ‘Celebrity’ which has a great line: ‘…and a mystery illness to…
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Last night I led some study on Acts 7:54-60, the stoning of Stephen. I have to admit I went off on a bit of a tack but I found the parallels…
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On twitter last night I saw a tweet from @edthornton, a writer for the Church Times who flagged up this article by Nelson Jones for the New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/nelson-jones/2011/07/church-ageing-congregations In it Jones says…
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This time last week I was falling apart. I wrote the following but didn’t want to post it until I had the results. So before you read this I can tell…
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I am reading a rather fantastic book at the mo called ‘God of Surprises’ by Gerard Hughes. It’s a fairly old one so I suspect lots of Christians have a copy…
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This morning the Bishop of Chichester has annoucned his retirement, he will step down in April 2012. Dicoese news here. I imagine speculation will shortly begin on who will take over and…
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I have been challenged recently about resting, and about being still. more specifically being still and resting in Gods presence. Being still and knowing that He is God. Being still is…
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Funny how life changes isn’t it. Maybe it’s a modern generation thing? My parents did the same job for years and lived in the same house for years (current one 32…