I offered a sermon today on the subject of "Love", with close reference to 1 Corinthians 13 and John 15: 9-17. It was the final part of our six-week sermon series on Jesus Shaped People. Here's the text (with illustrations) if you want to have a read. Jesus talked about love a LOT. It was …
Category: Christianity
Small Steps
I took my first steps back to 'normality' today, and went to my first church service since the end of November. It felt very strange. It has been the longest I have not been in a church in the last 8 years or so, and as this was my first Advent and Christmas as a …
Season’s Greetings
It's approaching dusk on Christmas Eve 2022 here in the UK, and I wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and to assure you of my prayers as the last days of 2022 give way to the first days of 2023. This year will have been tricky at times and it will have …
Words that say so much
I was introduced to this song today by my friend and colleague Eddie who was leading worship this morning. We were talking about Christ the King, and how his life and death and resurrection means that we are saved, and this song is just so beautiful and sums up everything Jesus is to me. I …
Remembering
It is Remembrance Sunday today, and I have been involved in three separate services where we gave thanks for our war dead. I would like to share some of my day with you, first in the shape of my sermon, and then by a couple of photos I took in Boggart Hole Clough, Blackley. Taken …
All Saints, All Souls
How are you all doing? Are you ok? The clocks went back here in the UK this weekend, and since then it feels like the darkness has made itself felt in a big way, doesn't it? First of all the clocks going back an hour makes a huge difference to our daily routines. I don't …
Pictures From The PamCam
I have spent quite a bit of time at St Mary's today, and thought I'd share some photos with you from my day. Isn't God's creation wonderful? The first time I was there was for a school assembly (full church!!). It was quite foggy outside, and the dampness in the air showed up the spider's …
Kindness
We model love and kindness to the world because we are first shown love and kindness by the God of all creation so don't let the world dictate anything other than that in your life. You are worth more than anything the world can give, because you were created by God to reflect his light …
Prayer Beads
I have had a lovely creative evening tonight, and I've made a couple of sets of Anglican prayer beads. You might be wondering what the difference is between Catholic rosary beads and Anglican prayer beads, because they look very similar, don't they? The major difference is the direction of prayer that they are used for; …
Mushy Cloud 