My son decided to help me by getting an Artificial Intelligence programme to write me a ‘Lutheran Christmas sermon’! At first the programme was stumped but after a tweak it came up with a brief message – and it wasn’t that bad! We all…
It seems the volume is up on many people’s frustration or anger control. I am hearing lots of views about politics – Brexit – the EU – and, wider still, the global machinations of China, Russia, and the US. Everyone has a view and…
Over the last few months I have increasingly felt a link between Christmas and Holy Communion. It has been encapsulated in the first line of Christina Rosetti’s poem, ‘Love came down at Christmas’. The incredible message and truth of the Incarnation – God embodied…
I was wrong. I didn’t know I was wrong. For the last few years I have been following Burnley in the football as it has travelled between the Premier and Championship Leagues because my son-in-law is an ardent Burnley supporter. I would like to…
Welcome to the beginning of 2016! I trust we will look back on it as one in which we’ve grown closer to God through Jesus. Of course today isn’t the beginning of 2016 – there’s already been 2 full days of it (or 48…
I sent a Christmas tweet and put a spelling mistake in it. Not on purpose. A bit too bleary eyed I’m afraid. Instead of being on bended knee around the manger and the altar I said ‘blended’. I preached a Christmas Eve sermon at…
UK Power Networks to boost compensation payments. Donation ‘saved our Christmas’ say family. Tributes to ‘exceptional’ soldier’ killed in Afghanistan. Three Brits injured in Tenerife hotel explosion. Pope Francis urges aid access to Syria in Christmas speech. South Sudan threatens to attack rebel stronghold….
