Broken
“BANG, SMASH” You look around and your heart sinks as you see the jar that was previously standing proudly on …
Category Archives: Guest blog
You Can Keep Your Healing
Last week I had the honour of being featured on the website threads. Threads is a blogging website that has …
Fifty Shades of Normal
I was recently reminded how hard we try to be accepted by society. I also know personally that it can, …
Frog Faith
This is a guest post from Imogen. Imogen is at the youth group at Scarborough Christian Fellowship and this is …
Disillusioned
“Seems you created your own illusion, fuelled by an image of me” The above are lyrics to a song by …
The man I was made to be
“Love it will not betray you, dismay you or enslave you. It will set you free. Be more like the …
Sleep and Stress
I often struggle to remember my dreams for very long after waking up unless the dream was particularly eventful or …
Webbed Feet
The post today is a guest post from a new writer. Kevin heads the men’s ministry at Hereford Baptist Church …
Aunty Beryl
My Aunty Beryl is eighty-five years old. She has Alzheimer’s Disease and has to be cared for in a home. …
Dry Docked
Today we have a new writer but a familiar face. Anyone who has followed the blog from the start may remember …
The Hairdresser
My hairdresser is a special young woman. I do not have to tell her how to cut my hair. She …
Celebrating Youth
At 07.30 hours on 14 July 2012 various youth pastors/leaders and young people from across Herefordshire were loading vehicles in …
Down Time
Under Pressure? Ever been low? It wasn’t something that ever bothered me. I knew about depression, having seen other people …
Stranded!
Ebs or Ebbs? The title of this blog is important. Although it is a play on words associated with the …
Bird Food
I get a huge amount of pleasure from watching the birds feed in my garden. I put food and water …
Father and Son
Walking and Talking I spent a full day this week in the sole company of my eldest son, Nick. It …
Shopping Lists
I am passing time in an airport lounge in Oslo. There are various conversations going on around me, some of …
Doo
I remember saving up for holidays when I was little. I also remember blowing my entire holiday savings on the …
Communication Issues?
When I was a child very few people had telephones. By the time I got married in 1979 it was …
Eyesight Problems
I spent six years of my life at Castel School in Guernsey. The first photograph shows how the school looks …
The Final Harbour
I wrote the following poem on the ‘graveyard’ watch (00.00 – 04.00) when I was a young second mate in …
Back in the Box
Despite writing two blogs about jigsaw puzzles (God’s Big Jigsaw Puzzle and The Missing Piece) I have to admit that I really …
God’s Big Jigsaw Puzzle
I consider life to be a jigsaw (The Missing Piece). I don’t have the box to the jigsaw so I …
Doing All Things Well
My sixteen-year old daughter Beth has recently completed a training course to qualify as a football (soccer) referee. Before she …
It’s not fair!
As a child I can remember exclaiming, “it’s not fair!” on many occasions and for many different reasons. I may …
Trust Issues
Do you really trust God implicitly? Could you be as bold as King Jehoshaphat who called the nation of Judah …
Start with me
In 1904 revival transformed Wales. In the space of one year more than 100,000 people surrendered their lives to Jesus …
Hubris
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.’
Special Need
It is important to realise and understand how special we are to God. Failure to do so limits and constrains us, and may restrict God’s ability to achieve His plans for us.
Prayer
I was thinking about prayer this evening. A lot of us have probably been told that we shouldn’t ask God …
The Missing Piece
I do not like jigsaw puzzles. I can usually manage the corners and edge pieces but after that I get …
Ebs and Flows... 