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A Good Tradition

January 3, 2015

A family tradition has developed in response to the 250-mile journey we make north several times a year to visit …

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The Tallest Building in Town

December 3, 2014

Daylight arrives late in Sweden this time of year. Having started work in the dark last Thursday it felt good …

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Challenging the Agenda

November 19, 2014

Here I am Down on my knees again Surrendering all Surrendering all   Find me here Lord as You draw …

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Whatever

October 19, 2014

A little over four years ago a team from British Youth for Christ (YFC) visited Hereford with a cage. They …

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The Fine Detail

October 1, 2014

The last six weeks have been hectic with visits to five other countries, although thankfully one of those visits was …

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World Traveller Plus

August 18, 2014

Ever since I left school and joined my first ship in October 1973 I have been travelling, but what was once …

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Looking into Beach Huts

August 13, 2014

I photographed quite a few beach huts in Devon a couple of weeks ago. A row of immaculate, equally proportioned, …

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Put a Tiger in Your Tank

May 21, 2014

Back in the sixties Esso ran a promotion with the slogan ‘Put a Tiger in Your Tank’ to encourage drivers …

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What Kind of Church?

April 2, 2014

I’m struggling with church at the moment. Not the church I belong to as such. Just church. I honestly believe …

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Learning to Speak Welsh

March 5, 2014

I have a confession to make. I want to learn to speak Welsh. Dw i’n moyn siarad Cymraeg! I can’t …

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Advanced Driving

November 14, 2013

Several years ago my children clubbed together to buy me a voucher for advanced driver training. It wasn’t that they …

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(Some) Things Change

November 10, 2013

It is so easy to become overly engrossed in your own small and largely insignificant life. To my shame I …

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The L Factor

November 6, 2013

Keeping the Sabbath Holy When I was growing up there were many restrictions on what we could do on Sundays. …

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Unveiling the Bride

August 28, 2013

When I went walkabout one evening during a recent business trip to Moscow I came across a rather stunning building. …

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Perception Filters

February 27, 2013

I spent an afternoon out in the sticks this week. Our friends have a farm that is approached via narrow …

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Psalm B?

August 11, 2012

Below are the lyrics to a song called ‘Lost My Way’ by Plan B. It’s quite long but stick with …

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Aunty Beryl

August 8, 2012

My Aunty Beryl is eighty-five years old. She has Alzheimer’s Disease and has to be cared for in a home. …

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Dry Docked

August 4, 2012

  Today we have a new writer but a familiar face. Anyone who has followed the blog from the start may remember …

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The Hairdresser

August 1, 2012

My hairdresser is a special young woman. I do not have to tell her how to cut my hair. She …

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Celebrating Youth

July 18, 2012

At 07.30 hours on 14 July 2012 various youth pastors/leaders and young people from across Herefordshire were loading vehicles in …

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Everyone Matters

June 28, 2012

In March 2000 I spent ten days in hospital when surgeons removed half of my colon. I came round from …

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Communication Issues?

May 2, 2012

When I was a child very few people had telephones. By the time I got married in 1979 it was …

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Hebrews 12:14-29

April 7, 2012

God led me to the following passage and I understood it more fully than ever before. I went home and …

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Redundant Faith?

March 31, 2012

As I have reflected on these events lots of thoughts have come to mind, but this morning I was reminded of the growing gap between society and church. How does the church help people who are going through these very difficult times and is this gap present in our churches, where most of the congregation work in a very different world to the one of the paid church staff.

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Start with me

March 14, 2012

In 1904 revival transformed Wales. In the space of one year more than 100,000 people surrendered their lives to Jesus …

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Hubris

March 7, 2012

So I sat there, not sure about the content, not sure about the approach I was going to take, feeling a bit embarrassed about my oversight and concerned that I was failing in responsibilities to God and everyone who had showed up on a cold night in January. Then before the sermon we sang ‘When I Survey the Wondrous Cross’ – a classic and well loved hymn that I have been singing since I’ve been able to read. All of a sudden all my insecurities, worries and hopelessness were put into perspective,

‘Were the whole realm of nature mine,

that were an offering far too small;

love so amazing, so divine,

demands my soul, my life, my all.’

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Lazy Birds

February 1, 2012

A few days ago I looked out in the garden to see three pigeons and two doves sunning themselves in …

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Vision Express

January 25, 2012

Later I wondered what God would identify as the most important thing about the church Futures document?

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Man the Brooms

November 30, 2011

The mate tipped me out of my bunk and onto the deck of my cabin. “The crew are on strike. Get your backside down into number five hold and get sweeping. The old man (captain) is down there. If the old man is sweeping, then so are you.” (Polite version.)

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Underdog

October 29, 2011

How ever did we get to this point? If we believe what we say we believe then we are in no way the underdog! No matter what our current status, no matter how the church is viewed in society the truth of the matter is that God has won! Do we believe that? That why aren’t we staking more on it? Why do we treat the gospel as though it has the power of a soggy paper bag rather than the power to destroy death?

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Give us clean hands…

October 26, 2011

Having just finished a two-week business trip to New Zealand and Australia in December 2000 I had one day free …

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