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Cracked Cisterns – A reflection on Jeremiah for Today

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October 27, 2022
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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 […]

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Serving God with Humility and Grace

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September 26, 2022
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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 […]

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Forming a new Covenant

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June 29, 2022
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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 […]

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Faith and its Impact #2

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April 4, 2022
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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 […]

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Faith and its Impact #1

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February 21, 2022
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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. […]

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Seeking Reconciled Diversity in a Covid-driven World

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January 17, 2022
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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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Celtic Advent 40 Days of Spiritual Devotion

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December 15, 2021
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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 […]

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Forgive our Stupidity Lord,

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September 1, 2021
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In my last post I quoted from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book, I Want to Live These Days with You[1] which contains a year-long series of devotions which form part of my own daily reading. While continuing my daily reading I came across this passage dated for August 26th and did not want to let it pass without comment. […]

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Hearing and Speaking – Learning the Art of Listening Again

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August 23, 2021
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This piece was originally posted on August 01st for Black Country Urban Industrial Mission (www.bcuim.co.uk) discussing how the pandemic is likely to result in workplace chaplains such as myself, having to re-learn the art of listening so important to our ministry. I would advocate this is something any of us whose work involves interacting with […]

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Benefits Rules for the Terminally Ill need changing. They don’t have time to waste!

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June 21, 2021
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Today is Global MND Awareness Day when we highlight the need to raise awareness of a disease which in the UK kills on average around six people per day. MND or Motor Neurone Disease, is a fatal, rapidly progressing disease that affects the brain and spinal cord.   It attacks the nerves that control movement so muscles […]

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