Charlotte and I enjoyed our evening at the ‘Monty Python Live (mostly)’ show. We, with the thou-sands there, laughed and enjoyed the memory lane experience. We knew many of the sketches – knew the lines – knew the jokes – and we still laughed….
We enjoyed exploring Dorset last week. There was the scenery, Thomas Hardy, the Fleet Air Arm Museum, numerous picturesque little towns, narrow lanes, lots of greenery and hills(!), Chesil Beach, and our first time up close at Stonehenge. We also tend to keep a…
From ‘Straight Answers to Awkward Questions’ on Lutheran Radio UK – What is faith? Christian faith is what God desires for all people for by it we are saved; we are forgiven, and we have eternal life – life with God now and forever….
I wonder if one of the reasons why people reject the Trinity as the truth about God is because they sense that if God is Trinitarian then he is harder to ‘take or leave’. The concept of the Trinity is of course hard enough…
Ok, this is somewhat cheeky …but there is so much one could say about Pentecost and about the Holy Spirit … so here are some of the things I didn’t fit into my sermon … linking what the Catechisms say … I believe that…
Last week at the European Lutheran Conference in Germany the Bishop of the Kyrgyzstan Lutheran Church, Kenzhebek Botobaev, made a presentation to a number of people who were ‘friends of his church’. I was one who received a special Kyrgyz gift – an ak-kalpak…
Last week I ruminated about the Church as busi-ness and what I saw as the tension between organ-isational conformity and chaotic freedom. We need both and both can get us into trouble. This week I’m drawn to the thought of alliances, fellowship, and identity…
For whatever images one has of the Christian Church – congregation, body (of Christ), people (of God), a spiritual house (made of living stones), branches (of the vine), the household (of God), the Christian Resources Exhibition held this week at Sandown Park, Esher added…
As you know, I see things I read from time to time that seem ‘just right’ for this ‘thought for the week’. It has been an interesting thing for me this Easter season having decided to read and preach 1 Peter (the second reading…
When I wrote last week’s bulletin ‘blurb’ I didn’t expect things to keep going regarding Prime Minis-ter David Cameron’s contention that Great Britain is a Christian country. But the quote attributed to Harold Wilson ‘a week is a long time in politics’ seemed to…
