When you frame it like that… what are you missing?
This post, which interrupts the flow of my reminiscences from life at sea in the 1970s, is a response to …
Category Archives: God
My Will be Done
After just ten hours in Port Cartier the Irish Wasa was back at sea, loaded with 16,000 tons of Canadian …
Awesome
Awesome is not a word we used much when I was sixteen, although awesome would more than adequately describe my …
Taken for Granted
What made me join the Merchant Navy? Was it my early connections with the sea through living in Plymouth and …
Happy Birthday!
Those birthdays with zeroes at the end impact each of us differently. I still remember the first one when Dad …
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 Stops
To celebrate our 40th Wedding Anniversary Marilyn and I returned to one of our favourite places on this planet. To …
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. …
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 …
Clean Hands
Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has …
What I Want
I have a confession to make: my study of the Welsh language has fallen by the wayside. Life seems to …
No Longer Here
I first blogged about my Aunty Beryl five years ago. By then Beryl had already spent one year in a …
Dinosaur Church
One of our children had a thing about dinosaurs. I can’t remember who it was but I do know that …
Dirty Coffee Cups
I have a corner in my home office where I retreat to spend time with God. It separates me from …
Wish You Were Here
Today I submitted a photograph to a competition for amateur photographers. The subject of the competition was ‘Wish You Were …
Whose Church?
I’m still having trouble getting Harvest Bible Chapel Miami out of my head, even though I am back in the …
Beautiful
For the last two years we have come together as a family at the end of May in the North …
Flows
It is Easter and the Welford family are back in Skegness for Spring Harvest. We hope for a recharging of …
A Different Clock
If there is one thing God has been repeatedly reminding me about in the last twelve months it has been …
Broken Church
I have picked up and lost a couple of nicknames in my time. On my first ship they called me …
Driven by Love
On Monday this week Marilyn, myself and our youngest son John headed down to Cardiff (75 miles from us) to …
Sarajevo
Sarajevo is an unusual city. It is a place where east meets west as the old town area that hails …
Finding Our Way Home
It has been a busy few weeks with little time spent at home due to work commitments, and even less …
Don’t Blame God
Last week I was in St Petersburg, this week I am in Kiev. Not so many years ago Kiev was …
The MiT Diaries – It’s all Greek…
Welcome to the MiT Diaries! MiT in UK Baptist terminology means ‘Minister in Training’ after this I become a NAM …
Incomplete
Do you ever wonder why the world has so many different religions? They can’t all be right, can they? Could …
The Captain of the Ship
When I was sixteen all I ever wanted to be was a ship’s captain. I spent three and a half …
Under Pressure
Life has been a tad demanding of late, hence the sporadic nature of posts on this blog. In the last …
Ebs and Flows... 