Today I decided to attend the 10:30 am service at the Methodist church in Peasedown St John. Unlike the Church of England, Methodist ministers work within a circuit, meaning they rotate between different churches rather than staying permanently in one place. This morning’s preacher was a retired minister — a “supernumerary,” I believe the term is — and he delivered an engaging, historically...
Today I've had cause to think about the many discussions and arguments I've had with people who I know in advance are not going to change their minds, but nevertheless I go through the motions of disagreeing with them. One of the problems is that our attention is directed in so many ways that we don't have time to give the time and energy to a particular conversation and work it out because our...
When the right soul walks into your life, it feels different. It's not just romance; it's a shift. They don't create drama; they bring peace. They don't dwell on your past; they honour the strength you built from it. Their presence pushes you to heal, to rise, and to grow into the version of yourself you've always been capable of becoming. It's not simply a relationship. It's a partnership in...
Our little ministry is always quaint, never predictable and intimate. That is why I love it. About 10 of us meet once a month on the first Sunday. I found myself thinking about Sunday’s address in the Methodist church afterwards, turning it over in my mind. If I had wanted to be critical, I could easily have listed several things that did not quite work — there was repetition, a slightly...
The day began on a fairly low note. I decided to cancel the exploratory session on Thursday the 19th in Torquay because I felt it was more important to get a feel for the whole Torbay area, and if I want to write a book on it - as I do - then I need to maybe take a longer term view. I am only in that area for four days, so I think I can very well fill my time with sniffing around the place and...
Matthew 6 25-34 Worry about necessities 25 “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than...
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