How Should We Remember People?

Two incidents in the space of a week has me thinking again about how we should remember people. Former radio and television personality and charity worker Jimmy Saville, who died a year ago, has not been accused of a number of incidents of sexually inappropriate behaviour.  The charges and allegations have caused quite a stir […]

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Redemption and Choice

Introduction: Reading A Book Not long ago I mentioned how I’d virtually been on a reading fast.  I had literally not read a book for months. Now for me that is a big deal.  Before my love of music comes reading.  Before my love of writing comes reading.  Before my love of football comes reading. […]

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Thanking God For The Valley

At the moment I enjoy my sleeping patterns. In the evening my wife and youngest daughter will retire to bed at a relatively early time and being exhausted by events, I won’t have that much stamina to stay up for that much longer and I’m usually gone before 11pm. Almost like clockwork way before 6am […]

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Restoration

The story often referred to as the Prodigal Son is a brilliant example of what the ministry of reconciliation is all about.  In that story a fair bit of credit is given to the wastrel son as he comes to his senses and realises that he could get better quality food back at his home […]

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When God Says Lets Reason

I am a sinner. When AA was set up and started encouraging its members to introduce themselves by acknowledging the particular addiction from which they suffered, they were following a confessional tradition that has spanned the ages. I’m not arrogant enough to believe that Christians started it and initiated it and have a patent on […]

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