I came across this prayer the other day. It was based on some meditations from the Northumbrian Community and suits very well the changes in life as we men get older. Lord, help me now to un-clutter my life: to organise myself in the direction of simplicity. Lord, teach me to listen to my heart: […]
“Praying” and “dangerous” are not two words that most people would put together in today’s world and even in many churches. To some it may even seem a contradiction. Give me a minute or two of your time and I will explain. I first came to the Lord 15 years ago when my youngest son […]
It struck me the other day that we sing an awful lot about Jesus being everything, that it’s all about Jesus. And let’s face it they are both excellent sentiments but do they tell the whole story? I mean I know we should give our entire heart to Jesus and He should be our main […]
I have never been that good at setting aside regular time to read the Bible and pray. It’s not that I haven’t tried – I have. I have tried when I wake up, when I go to bed, before I eat and so on. Every time the same thing happens, I start off strongly but […]
I must have rolled over in bed and the pain had woken me. Whichever way I moved the pain was so intense that I fully expected to need to go to hospital, with the added indignity of needing to be carried out of bed by an ambulance crew, with me only wearing a pair of […]
The practice of the presence of God was popularised by Brother Lawrence in the classic Christian book of the same name. (The Practice of the Presence of God on Amazon) It is a great aspiration but one most of us find difficult to achieve. I came across a guy who does a lot of driving and consequently found that his […]
Looking down to Fishermen’s Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge and all the other wonderful sights San Francisco has to offer, high above the streets of San Francisco atop Nob Hill sit several buildings which have cameo roles in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (recently voted the best movie of all time). Across the square from the Fairmount […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote to a Christian publication who had carried a job advertisement which was a ‘very rare breed’. I asked them to publish my letter on their ‘Letters Page,’ which they did. The advertisement had been for a SENIORS PASTOR at a Church in London. I wrote because in our day […]
Think about everything you do for God. Ever feel pretty good about it? Ever feel a bit annoyed when God doesn’t seem to bless you enough for what you do? I mean you probably give time, money and more to God right? And that’s a good thing yes? But what if God doesn’t want your […]
Knee deep in mud, gale force winds and hauling millions of chairs across a field in Swindon, was not how we were expecting our internship to begin. OK so maybe we were only ankle deep, and it was probably more of a strong gust than a gale… and there were probably only 1000 chairs but […]
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