Where Are We Now?

So where are we now?  The first entry of the year gave a good indication that things would be new in a lot of different areas in  life.  Stepping into this new was not straightforward and some indication of how to get there began with an ongoing awareness of God in all of life which formed the […]

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To The North Staffs YMCA Family

I don’t usually do blog entries about other people … alright I often do blog entries about other people, but I don’t often do blog entries about where I work.  (There see you can’t get me now!) Today’s a very special day in my time working for the North Staffordshire Young Men’s Christian Association as […]

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Getting To Know Me Part 3

Yeah I mentioned someone calling me a friend recently and also made the scandalous suggestion that retirement only happens at death? Now I promised more and this is the penultimate in the series so check these babies out! 26. What are you listening to now? Don Carson and John Piper talking about pastoral ministry and […]

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Getting To Know Me Part 2

Have I mentioned someone calling me a friend recently? So without further ado onto more questions 13. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? Scotland. I’ve not been that ambitious a travelling man. I would have said USA on previous occasions, but I’m not so keen and up on going […]

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Getting To Know Me Part 1

Someone called me a friend in an email I read recently. Yeah, honestly, me – a friend. I was surprised too. So this was one of those emails that ask loads of questions about things to find out about you. At first I was going to reply to the email … then I thought, nah. […]

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DMCD Family & Friends

I won’t have time to blog properly tonight especially in continuing the fasting series although the good news is there that more material has been developed for it and I’m excited to publish it as soon as I can. Also on the good news front this is a very important week for me writing wise […]

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So Where Have I Been?

[Man it took the best part of two days to get round to finishing this post and eventually posting it with pictures and all. Heaven help me when I actually start writing for real.] So where on earth have I been? One day posting enough posts in a month to keep everyone and my mother […]

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Thank God For … Married Life

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, (Eph. 3:20) Ephesians 3:20 is often used way out of context to justify the kind of ‘God as Tescos’ mentality of consumer Christianity. Thankfully Authrine is a living testimony of […]

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