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Reunion

May 23, 2022

For the last year and a bit I have been typing up the journals I kept during my first two …

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Just a Postcard

September 15, 2016

It was just a postcard. It arrived this morning along with a credit card bill. The credit card bill was …

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Sarajevo

August 15, 2016

Sarajevo is an unusual city. It is a place where east meets west as the old town area that hails …

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The Last Post

September 11, 2014

The ten days since returning from one of the best family holidays ever have been rough. It seems as if …

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Beach Huts

August 6, 2014

The thought of having a beach hut appeals to me for some reason. It must run in the family because …

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Clouds

June 4, 2014

I love the Joni Mitchell song ‘Both Sides Now’ (although I prefer the Judy Collins version). The song begins with …

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Be Ever Graceful

March 27, 2014

As I continue down the path that will eventually lead to ordination, or so God tells me, I learn and …

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Facedown

December 1, 2013

I can be a little deluded about myself and my giftings. I like to think it’s charming but I’m probably …

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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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A Bitter Pill

October 27, 2013

Over the past months, and for what feels like an eternity, I have been up against the most painful situation …

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Monkey Do Monkey Do

August 14, 2013

I write this on my phone in a cheap hotel room after meeting our son for the first time. In …

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If it makes you happy…

July 14, 2013

Once in youth group I asked the young people what they thought God wanted for their lives. There was a …

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A year on…

June 16, 2013

A year ago I wrote about the worst day of the year. Today I write a little explanation as to …

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Broken

May 22, 2013

“BANG, SMASH” You look around and your heart sinks as you see the jar that was previously standing proudly on …

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Barabbas

April 1, 2013

Jesus is nervous. He is awaiting trial. The people hate him and with good reason. The whispers about him are …

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Wake Up Jesus!

March 16, 2013

The disciples are out on a boat. For the fishermen among them this is a place of safety. It’s what …

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The Kings House

March 13, 2013

My favourite restaurant is called The Kings House. My wife and I would visit weekly if finances permitted. If we …

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Tree Surgery

December 8, 2012

I was walking home the other day and coming towards me were two school girls. I decided to do the …

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Running on Empty

October 31, 2012

The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is …

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Mercy not Sacrifice: Emphasis

August 25, 2012

There is a man who stands in the town centre. He has done it for years. This photo is his …

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First Trip

August 22, 2012

I was sixteen years old when I joined the Merchant Navy as a navigating cadet. After a two-week induction course …

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Healing is in His Hands

July 11, 2012

Pain My visit ever visit to hospital as a patient was in 1990 when the cause of the debilitating pain …

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The Worst Day of the Year

June 17, 2012

For couples who struggle to conceive Fathers’ Day and Mothers’ Day can be some of the hardest days of the …

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Stranded!

June 13, 2012

Ebs or Ebbs? The title of this blog is important. Although it is a play on words associated with the …

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Have you heard the Word?

May 13, 2012

Apart from a relatively few extremely gifted people a lot of us struggle with evangelism. We know we should do …

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Doo

May 9, 2012

I remember saving up for holidays when I was little. I also remember blowing my entire holiday savings on the …

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Trust Issues

March 21, 2012

Do you really trust God implicitly? Could you be as bold as King Jehoshaphat who called the nation of Judah …

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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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Comforting Accusations

March 11, 2012

You are rubbish. Honestly you are a totally idiot. No one else would waste so much as effectively as you do. No one else would use their time for such idiotic escapades. Who else do you know that abuses grace so profoundly as you? To be honest mate why don’t you just jack it all in? You lack discipline and you are probably never going to have enough to be good enough! Yes theres always grace, but don’t you think you have pushed it a bit too far? How many times can someone (specifically YOU) be forgiven? Does God really forgive everything?! You are taking the mick. And you know it. Why don’t you go out and spoil yourself – there’s a whole world out there to make you feel better – go for it kid. After all if you are going to ruin everything you touch you may as well have fun doing it.

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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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Wrath, Mercy & Jesus

January 15, 2012

A plague wipes out 70,000, and then God sends His angel to Jerusalem to smash it. But it becomes too much for God and He extends His mercy calling the angel off as he is poised over the threshing floor of Araunah. It’s at this point that David looks out and sees the angel with his sword drawn, poised but frozen and David is faced with the place where God’s wrath meets God’s mercy. This threshing floor goes on to be the site of the temple. This visual representation of the wrath/mercy smack down captivated me.

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