To be a pilgrim
Want an updated version of ‘To be a pilgrim’? This was sung at my installation service in June 2011. Feel free to use and improve if you wish – no copyright! To be a pilgrim Sent by the Father above…
Who are we becoming
Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
Who are we becoming
Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
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Power in Weakness: Before a meeting
We seek health: You bless us with aches and pains, reminders of our fragility. We seek wealth: You bless us with limited resources, to help us discover simplicity. We seek strength: You bless us with weakness, that we might depend…
Power in weakness: a reflection
I love the Biblical paradoxes. The ‘power in weakness’ passage from 2 Corinthians 12 is has been on my mind this week, and this prayer is an attempt to try to get my head round the wisdom in it. We…
George
So George Osborne proved me wrong: hallelujah! Truthful with the economics, and forecasting lean times beyond the end of this parliament. Although the news isn’t good, I feel strangely lightened by the freshness of his candour, and a sober prediction…
Keeping tempo
When I was teaching I was struck by a claim that schools are always teaching young people about the world the teachers inhabited, preparing them for a world that won’t exist when the young people enter it as adults. Unless…