May 18th this year marks Aldersgate Sunday, the nearest Sunday to May 24th known as Wesley Day, when on that day in 1738, the founder of the Methodist Church felt his heart strangely warmed while listening to a reading of the preface to Romans by Martin Luther at a church in Aldersgate, East London. May […]
With the recent General Election beginning to fade into distant memory, and with a new government adjusting from being in opposition where it was free to criticize to now having to be judged on the decisions it takes, what does this mean for people of faith? This blog is based on the sermon I gave […]
At the start of this year I put down as one of my New Year resolutions to be more active with the blog not for commercial success or even for critical acclaim, but for my own sense of well-being and spiritual contentment. Below is an extract from a sermon I was privileged to give last […]
This blog posting is based on a sermon I gave at a local United Reformed Church on February 05th, which had as its theme the way we have allowed ourselves to become practitioners of a false observance of faith, leading to accusations of hypocrisy and the “de-churching” of many congregations. The chosen texts were Isaiah […]
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 […]
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 […]
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