How has it happened that our understanding up church can, by and large, be summarised by just one word: meetings? Every church I’ve been part of has seemed to view adding more and more meetings as being a vital part of its purpose. When I think of church, more often than not it is church […]
It has been really interesting to read a couple of posts on James Petticrew’s and Anne Jackson’s blogs about hugging, friendship, and emotional affairs in relation to Christians and the church. It has got me thinking and I thought I’d post of few related thoughts of my own. Clearly the church is meant to be […]
Seeing I’m off work today not feeling great, I thought I use the time to write my second posting on our first year of marriage. I’ve been thinking it would be good to talk about some of the challenges we have had as I wouldn’t want anyone to think after that first post that […]
Me and Rachel went to see the movie Crash on Saturday night. We’ve been wanting to see it for a while really so we were glad to catch it whilst it was still on. What a powerful movie. It really got me thinking about my own attitudes towards people of other cultural and ethnic backgrounds. […]
Having just celebrated our first anniversary, I thought it was probably about time I wrote a few thoughts down about marriage. First off, is it really a year? That’s gone by so quickly. It hardly seems like a moment ago that I was looking down the aisle watching my beautiful bride-to-be walking towards me. (Thankfully […]
I thought I should take a break from my more spiritual thoughts to celebrate the success of the English cricket team! Having been a cricket fan since I was about 8 it’s been fantastic to finally see us winning! That it was the Australians we beat makes it even better of course – especially […]
I’m just coming to the end of a book called Café Theology at the moment by a guy called Michael Lloyd. I’ve really enjoyed it. It’s very easy to read and yet has a real depth to it. I think it would also be a great book to give new followers of the Way as […]
I’m making my way through the book of Acts at the moment and am again being inspired by what I read. It is such a challenge to catch a glimpse of the energy, passion, purpose, and growth of the early church. Seeing the commitment of those first century Christians to giving their all to the […]
I’ve been thinking quite a bit – as I’m sure most people around the world have been – about Hurricane Katrina. Lot’s of people no doubt have been asking questions about how this kind of tragedy could happen. And – more specifically – how a good God could allow such devastation to take place. Sadly, […]
Ok, so it’s been months since I posted anything to my blog! It’s amazing how quickly you get out of the habit of doing something (I’d pretty much forgotten I even had a blog until yesterday). But I find that for me personally, writing down thoughts is a good way of making it more likely […]
