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Going Home

February 24, 2021

I have many years of experience of going home. One of my longest journeys was travelling back to the UK …

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Memorial Stones

December 10, 2020

Whenever I visit my Dad in Holcombe in Devon I try to get a walk or two in on the …

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Happy Birthday!

November 10, 2020

Those birthdays with zeroes at the end impact each of us differently. I still remember the first one when Dad …

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Family Matters

October 29, 2020

Losing two family members in the space of three months this year served as a reminder of just how much …

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Wish You Were Here

June 27, 2020

It is just over one month since the eldest of my three younger sisters took her last breath. Linda left …

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Stolen Joy or Good Grief?

June 20, 2020

It could be argued that the one selfish act of my sister’s adult life was her leaving us all at …

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Linda Joy

May 27, 2020

I was first introduced to Linda on the day she was born. I think my parents must have mentioned something …

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A Time to Plant

May 20, 2020

My mother never told me what her feelings were about marrying a Baptist Minister and moving to a small village …

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Time to Remember

May 2, 2020

Mum would have celebrated her eighty-seventh birthday earlier this week. Tomorrow it will be two months since she left us …

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A Time to be Born and a Time to Die

March 16, 2020

My mother was born in 1933 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Two years before the start of the Second World War she …

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Time to Pray More

September 22, 2019

It has been nearly two months since my previous post: ‘Time to Pray.’ In that post I wrote the following …

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Time to Pray

July 30, 2019

I’ve read quite a few books about prayer and how to pray. Some were good, some were not. But surely …

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Time to Reflect

June 8, 2019

I travelled by train when I needed to be in Hereford one morning this week. It is only a twelve-minute …

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Time Stops

June 1, 2019

To celebrate our 40th Wedding Anniversary Marilyn and I returned to one of our favourite places on this planet. To …

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Time Flies

May 17, 2019

Christmas came and went. Now Easter has also passed. At Christmas we celebrated the birth of a special child. At …

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What’s the Point of Church?

December 12, 2018

I struggle sometimes with the question of who church is for, and what church is for. What is the point …

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Dregs

September 13, 2018

I looked expectantly into the mug, but only the dregs remained. Certainly not enough to satisfy my craving for coffee. …

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Change is good. Right?

September 2, 2018

Work takes me to Scandinavia a couple of times a year, mainly to Sweden and Denmark, with visits to Norway …

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How Lovely on the Mountains

July 25, 2018

My journey to attend a business meeting in Switzerland the other week included taking a train from Genève Airport to …

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Up, Up and Away

May 18, 2018

Earlier this week I was one of sixteen people who met at Worcester Racecourse at six in the morning. Apart …

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Poor in Spirit

April 26, 2018

  Trust in the Lord Take delight in the Lord Commit everything you do to the Lord Be still in …

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Stolen Joy

March 26, 2018

I watched The Shack for the second time the other night. I knew that I needed to watch it again, …

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Unexpected

March 18, 2018

British winter isn’t what it used to be. The last significant winter event took place in 2010. During the winter …

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A Distant Generation

March 8, 2018

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn …

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Blessed not Stressed

March 6, 2018

I never imagined that three inches of snow would create havoc with the transport network in Switzerland. In the UK …

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A Couple of Flakes

February 26, 2018

The announcement from the cockpit this morning advising passengers on a BA flight to Zürich that the snow was causing …

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Weird

February 21, 2018

When I was a child I considered church normal. It wasn’t always fun, but it was normal. Most of my …

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Clean Hands

February 15, 2018

Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has …

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Books and Covers

February 5, 2018

Tempus fugit and it is nearly two months since a post last appeared on this blog. Christmas with family and …

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Uncomfortable

December 9, 2017

Are you comfortable with your comfortable church, or does the fact that your church has become so comfortable make you …

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Sweaty for Jesus

November 18, 2017

Thirteen folk from my church went to a Matt Redman concert last night. The trip was organised for the youth, …

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