A Good Tradition
A family tradition has developed in response to the 250-mile journey we make north several times a year to visit …
A family tradition has developed in response to the 250-mile journey we make north several times a year to visit …
Daylight arrives late in Sweden this time of year. Having started work in the dark last Thursday it felt good …
Here I am Down on my knees again Surrendering all Surrendering all Find me here Lord as You draw …
A little over four years ago a team from British Youth for Christ (YFC) visited Hereford with a cage. They …
The last six weeks have been hectic with visits to five other countries, although thankfully one of those visits was …
Ever since I left school and joined my first ship in October 1973 I have been travelling, but what was once …
I photographed quite a few beach huts in Devon a couple of weeks ago. A row of immaculate, equally proportioned, …
Back in the sixties Esso ran a promotion with the slogan ‘Put a Tiger in Your Tank’ to encourage drivers …
I’m struggling with church at the moment. Not the church I belong to as such. Just church. I honestly believe …
I have a confession to make. I want to learn to speak Welsh. Dw i’n moyn siarad Cymraeg! I can’t …
Several years ago my children clubbed together to buy me a voucher for advanced driver training. It wasn’t that they …
It is so easy to become overly engrossed in your own small and largely insignificant life. To my shame I …
Keeping the Sabbath Holy When I was growing up there were many restrictions on what we could do on Sundays. …
When I went walkabout one evening during a recent business trip to Moscow I came across a rather stunning building. …
I spent an afternoon out in the sticks this week. Our friends have a farm that is approached via narrow …
Below are the lyrics to a song called ‘Lost My Way’ by Plan B. It’s quite long but stick with …
My Aunty Beryl is eighty-five years old. She has Alzheimer’s Disease and has to be cared for in a home. …
Today we have a new writer but a familiar face. Anyone who has followed the blog from the start may remember …
My hairdresser is a special young woman. I do not have to tell her how to cut my hair. She …
At 07.30 hours on 14 July 2012 various youth pastors/leaders and young people from across Herefordshire were loading vehicles in …
In March 2000 I spent ten days in hospital when surgeons removed half of my colon. I came round from …
When I was a child very few people had telephones. By the time I got married in 1979 it was …
God led me to the following passage and I understood it more fully than ever before. I went home and …
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.
In 1904 revival transformed Wales. In the space of one year more than 100,000 people surrendered their lives to Jesus …
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.’
A few days ago I looked out in the garden to see three pigeons and two doves sunning themselves in …
Later I wondered what God would identify as the most important thing about the church Futures document?
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.)
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?
Having just finished a two-week business trip to New Zealand and Australia in December 2000 I had one day free …