There are a lot of labels to contend with in life now aren’t there? These peanuts may contain nuts. Wash separately in cold water and then stretch while wet. Harmless labels maybe like he’s “a bit of a character” through to more serious ones that make assumptions based on race or age or social strata.
I […]
Recently, we have been trying to work out ways we can reach out and connect with people in our community and several ideas were suggested. We’ve been praying and listening to recent research undertaken by Keith Saynor about the needs in Wokingham to see what can be done. Jonathan mentioned a “ministry” he’d heard about, I […]
The early christians were known as followers of “The Way” I think. I was reading one of Brad Hightower’s posts a while ago. I don’t always agree with everything he writes but I thought he was onto something with this perspective:
In the institutional church, we are taught that Spiritual growth comes through the listening to […]
This week we are talking about the Holy Spirit/Holy Ghost. It kind of helped that the Holy Spirit was the topic of Jo Trott’s talk this morning at church (I bothered to go), and she really gave me food for thought, so I’ll plagiarise some of it for you now. She was looking at John […]
Changing the theme a bit here, I was concerned last week that there was a bit too much talk of who’s in and who’s out. I think it has been fashionable in the last 100 years in the church to be preoccupied with heaven and hell - which I’m sure we will talk about over […]
I have just come back from Cape Town as part of an education project and on one of our days off we visited Boulders Bay, home to many penguins. I don’t know why, but I am often ‘not bothered’ at the idea of visiting wildlife - I just have a mental block. Despite this, I find that […]
I’ve been finishing an MA in Art & Design in Education - brilliant course, but I just have not had the time to do it justice. I have not quite finished yet - it goes to the binders on wednesday - but I am getting there. Part of the course is practical and we have […]
I’ve been introduced to the David Burge perfect pitch super course. This is a remarkable course which goes against the received wisdom that perfect pitch is something you can’t learn.
The definition on wikipedia is:
Absolute pitch (”AP”), widely referred to as perfect pitch, refers to the ability to identify a note by name without the […]
At least Judas hung himself. Really? I’ve heard this sentiment expressed several times, most recently in the song ‘How did we end up here?’ by Martyn Joseph in which he sings, with reference to George Bush, ‘Shaft the poor, steal by stealth, at least Judas went and hung himself.’
It’s a hard hitting song and I love the fact […]
What is a prodigal? The dictionary definition is someone who spends money wastefully. The story about the prodigal son Luke 15: 11-32 tells us about a son who takes all his inheritance and disappeared to a distant land where he wasted it all on wild living. After many years, the son returns to the father, […]