Mark, the Multitude, and the Power of Emptiness
Mark’s Gospel can be frustrating as it seems ‘empty’ of any key teaching by Jesus. But it is out of the emptiness that a multitude is fed.
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Learning to Live ‘From Now On’
Learning to Live ‘From Now On’. The Greatest Showman lives a different live to Herod the Greatest No-Man
A Safe Place to Grow
Speech to General Synod on Safeguarding General Synod – 7 July 2018 Earlier this week a friend sent this tweet: ‘Church, we have got to stop introducing Safeguarding Training with comments like “Sorry, I’m afraid we have to go through the boring safeguarding stuff, it’s the rules” This is part of the problem. Friends for… Continue reading A Safe Place to Grow
Helping the Grass Grow Under Your Feet
Often we hinder the growth of God’s reign and become the fruitless faithful inhabiting dustbowl churches. How can we grow good?
Does God do Algebra?
Gathering Church attendance statistics can seem to be a thankless task but they can become a fountainhead for spreading God’s love
Terabithia or Bust!
God is a God of love and welcome and we need to set aside the lies about condemnation which our early faith may have taught us
Alfie – What’s It All About?
Grief is personal – We do no good by intruding with our own demands and end up bringing hurt instead of healing – hate instead of love.
Let Them Eat Fish
It is only as we offer ourselves as ‘food’ for others that we truly become The Body of Christ
A Song for Lent – Easter Day – However Easter Dawns There is Only ‘One Love’
Easter dawns – regardless of where we are Light shines on us and we find ourselves loved
A Song for Lent – Day 40 – Holy Saturday – Giving up on Lent: Starting on Life
The space between Good Friday and Easter Day gives us time to learn from Lent and choose life
