Going Home
I have many years of experience of going home. One of my longest journeys was travelling back to the UK …
Author Archives: David
Memorial Stones
Whenever I visit my Dad in Holcombe in Devon I try to get a walk or two in on the …
Happy Birthday!
Those birthdays with zeroes at the end impact each of us differently. I still remember the first one when Dad …
Family Matters
Losing two family members in the space of three months this year served as a reminder of just how much …
Wish You Were Here
It is just over one month since the eldest of my three younger sisters took her last breath. Linda left …
Stolen Joy or Good Grief?
It could be argued that the one selfish act of my sister’s adult life was her leaving us all at …
Linda Joy
I was first introduced to Linda on the day she was born. I think my parents must have mentioned something …
A Time to Plant
My mother never told me what her feelings were about marrying a Baptist Minister and moving to a small village …
Time to Remember
Mum would have celebrated her eighty-seventh birthday earlier this week. Tomorrow it will be two months since she left us …
A Time to be Born and a Time to Die
My mother was born in 1933 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Two years before the start of the Second World War she …
Time to Pray More
It has been nearly two months since my previous post: ‘Time to Pray.’ In that post I wrote the following …
Time to Pray
I’ve read quite a few books about prayer and how to pray. Some were good, some were not. But surely …
Time to Reflect
I travelled by train when I needed to be in Hereford one morning this week. It is only a twelve-minute …
Time Stops
To celebrate our 40th Wedding Anniversary Marilyn and I returned to one of our favourite places on this planet. To …
Time Flies
Christmas came and went. Now Easter has also passed. At Christmas we celebrated the birth of a special child. At …
What’s the Point of Church?
I struggle sometimes with the question of who church is for, and what church is for. What is the point …
Dregs
I looked expectantly into the mug, but only the dregs remained. Certainly not enough to satisfy my craving for coffee. …
Change is good. Right?
Work takes me to Scandinavia a couple of times a year, mainly to Sweden and Denmark, with visits to Norway …
How Lovely on the Mountains
My journey to attend a business meeting in Switzerland the other week included taking a train from Genève Airport to …
Up, Up and Away
Earlier this week I was one of sixteen people who met at Worcester Racecourse at six in the morning. Apart …
Poor in Spirit
Trust in the Lord Take delight in the Lord Commit everything you do to the Lord Be still in …
Stolen Joy
I watched The Shack for the second time the other night. I knew that I needed to watch it again, …
Unexpected
British winter isn’t what it used to be. The last significant winter event took place in 2010. During the winter …
A Distant Generation
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn …
Blessed not Stressed
I never imagined that three inches of snow would create havoc with the transport network in Switzerland. In the UK …
A Couple of Flakes
The announcement from the cockpit this morning advising passengers on a BA flight to Zürich that the snow was causing …
Weird
When I was a child I considered church normal. It wasn’t always fun, but it was normal. Most of my …
Clean Hands
Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has …
Books and Covers
Tempus fugit and it is nearly two months since a post last appeared on this blog. Christmas with family and …
Uncomfortable
Are you comfortable with your comfortable church, or does the fact that your church has become so comfortable make you …
Sweaty for Jesus
Thirteen folk from my church went to a Matt Redman concert last night. The trip was organised for the youth, …
