At a recent mid-week service (22nd November) I shared with the congregation my reflection on the forthcoming season of advent and the start of another church new year due the following Sunday. The historic significance of the date, November 22nd,became familiar to those with sufficiently long memories during the service. This helped underpin my theme […]
It has been quite a few months since we celebrated the Platinum Jubilee last June. Two monarchs, three Prime Ministers, several cabinet reshuffles and all against the backdrop of war in Ukraine, rising energy costs and general economic and environmental upheaval. Where may you ask is God in all this? How can we still hold […]
I have unable to post any new blogs since June as I have been completing a training programme which will allow me to move up from being a Methodist Worship Leader to a Methodist Local Preacher, complete with roving commission to preach in other circuits and districts (something I already do but we’ll let that […]
The text for this post is taken from a sermon I gave on Sunday June 26th at one of our local Methodist churches. The theme of the service featured on the forming of a new covenant which also coincided with the many ordinations into Christian ministry which took place over that weekend. The readings for […]
This blog is based on a sermon I gave very recently on the question of is God a micro-manager invading every aspect of our lives, or does he simply set the parameters and rely on humanity responding accordingly? You don’t have to be a student of history – or even theology – to know and […]
In the second of two blog postings on the subject of how faith as I have experienced it made an impact on my own personal life, I will focus this time on my support for those living with neurological illness, specifically Motor Neurone Disease or MND. As I wrote last time, my association with MND […]
In the first of two blog postings I want to examine where faith as I have experienced it, has made an impact on my own personal life and in particular the period following serious illness in 2008-2009, at which point I began the journey which brought me back to faith in Jesus Christ our Saviour. […]
The term “Reconciled Diversity” was taken from a biography of Pope Francis by Catholic commentator Austen Ivereigh, in which the-then Cardinal Bergoglio at an ecumenical gathering in Buenos Aires in 2006, described it as: The beauty of a people in which no one had to give up being who they were, yet who could walk […]
Bible reading 1 Timothy 4: 4-16 Christmas Eve for many is the day when we pack up work for the festive holiday and look forward to some time off – apart from the Clergy that is. It is also the day when certain people choose to do their last-minute Christmas shopping – married men in […]
Due to illness I have not posted anything on this site for some time. However now fully recovered from a rather nasty cold virus, I have also ventured out preaching again in my local Methodist circuit. Sunday October 24th was also Bible Sunday, a day to celebrate the scriptures and the central role they play […]
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