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Does one go up or down to London?
Does one go up or down to London? From South Wales I always considered I went up geographically from Swansea to Paddington but to say I’ve come down from Chester to Euston feels condescending. It’s too big a place for that isn’t it? Stepping out of the station the...
Funny Bones
The ‘death’ of Elijah is pretty extraordinary. The death of Elisha is not. Truth be told, Elijah’s ‘death’ wasn’t even really a death. The postmortem in 2 Kings 2:11 reads: As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire...
How Putin is the latest Herod but maybe not how you think
This morning Steff Morris was leading the PCW worker’s online devotions. The passage was Mark chapter 7 which tells the macabre story of the murder of John the Baptist. As we read I was surprised again at quite how close Herod seemed to come to faith. We read that,...
The Church is not Animal Farm, We don’t labour in vain
To the tune: ‘O My Darling, Clementine’ Beasts of England, beasts of IrelandBeasts of every land and climeHearken to my joyful tidingsOf the golden future time Soon or late the day is comingTyrant Man shall be o'erthrownAnd the fruitful fields of EnglandShall be trod...
So you think 2022 is the End of Days? Now’s the time to keep your nerve
I met a man yesterday who told me he had become a Christian over Christmas. His brother was a Christian, his other brother a minister. I can only imagine that they were overjoyed to hear him profess faith after so many years. But then he told me that these are the end...
Will 2022 Be The Year We Stop Getting John The Baptist’s Name Wrong?
noun, rai·son d'ê·trereason or justification for being or existence Are there any people in the world worse than Christians for losing sight of their raison d’être? Consider the prime ministers, the sportsmen, the entrepreneurs. They all have a raison d’être and the...
Disappointment at Christmas
What a week. On Monday our Village Carol service went really well. Lots of people attended, the Hot Chocolate bar was a massive hit, and there was an amazing and quite unexpected answer to prayer afterwards. So I came home feeling demob happy. I slumped on the sofa,...
The Christmas Minstrel
Preparing a Christmas sermon I came across this line from the poem Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Ring out the want, the care, the sin,The faithless coldness of the times;Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymesBut ring the fuller minstrel in. Being no...
Quiet Please
Sunday night’s Match of the Day opens in Manchester. It’s the weekend before Armistice Day and time to observe the act of Remembrance. The players stand around the centre circle where a carpet bearing a poppy is unfurled. The Band Sergeant Dave Pickles from the Duke...
Assisted Dying
The 8:10 interview on Radio 4 last week was concerned with the Assisted Dying Bill currently going through Parliament. It was an even-handed discussion allowing both sides to give their views fairly. But I was provoked a little bit when Michael Forsyth said, “I think...