While on holiday I was reflecting about why we love holidays so much. I think for me there has always been a a lot of escapism about it. That we can just leave our…
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Ok so I wasn’t going to blog, but today it’s avoidance tactics as I’m supposed to be packing. lLove going on hols but when you have to pack for a family…
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Today I have been writing a talk for next Sundays service – today is pretty much the only time to do it when the kids won’t be around, so I ruled…
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An interesting exchange just took place in my local garage… (I should explain that our village shop is actually the petrol station, that’s rural living for you these days). So… behind…
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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…
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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…