The other day, I was in Tesco’s queing at one of those self-scanning checkouts. At the till to my right I noticed a young girl aged about 10 or 11 putting in loads of coppers to pay for a 6 pint of milk. Pretty soon all the coins in her hand had gone into the [...]
Following on from my last post, I attended a prayer meeting this morning where a few of us got together for the first time. Martin announced that his inspiration for gathering together was the passage in Mark 3:17 where Jesus nicknames James and John the “Sons of thunder”. He strongly felt these words are significant [...]
A few weeks ago, I forgot my mum’s birthday. Well, I say forgot. I actually remembered it was her birthday and bought a card. What I failed to do was to call her up, wish her happy birthday, or even post the card to her. This is even more unforgivable when you know that I [...]
Never try to remodel your kitchen while studying for a degree, moving jobs and helping organise a national conference. It gets a bit messy!
Why is it that sometimes, simple tasks become such a burden that you find yourself doing anything else except what you need to? I usually find writing assignments, tidying the house, or doing the banking fall into this category. Right now I need to finish the 11-14’s teaching notes for Spring Harvest. They were [...]
This afternoon, when out for a walk in the countryside with 5 teenage boys, we wandered onto land that was not part of the public footpath. We were challenged by a lady shouting from the upstairs window of her house, who then gave us directions back to the path. It was getting quite dark and [...]
I’ve been trying to think back over 2006 and sum up my thoughts of the year. All in all it’s been quite an emotional ride and I’ve taken on a lot of responsibilities; buying a house, working towards my DipHE Level 2, staff changes at work, etc. So I thought I’d be fun to take [...]
Ok, Ok. So this post is around a month late, but I’ve had a lot to think about (and no time to write it). I was also prompted by the arrival of all the talks on mp3 yesterday. I attended the Eastbourne Conference and although the whole weekend was good, I was most struck by [...]
The last 2 weeks have probably been the hardest I have yet had to face in my vocation as a youth worker because I have spent much of my time supporting particular families in crisis situations while wrestling with my own role at work. I have felt singularly useless and found myself exhausted of practical [...]
Tomorrow is Sunday 1st October and Arun Community Church is having a thanksgiving service. It just so happens that I’m on the rota to lead worship for the meeting and have spent much of the day with a guitar in hand, trying to choose a set of songs that reflect what I believe God wants [...]
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