The choices we make in life can have unexpected consequences further on down the line. And the wrong choices, the sinful choices, we make often descend quickly into complete chaos. One sinful decision can set off a chain … [Read more...]
Round the Bible in 40 days
March 8, 2011 by
The Bishop of Huntingdon has challenged himself to read around the Bible in the forty days of Lent this year -- which starts tomorrow. He has invited anyone else who would like to to join him. I am challenging myself to … [Read more...]
Bend our wills to love your goodness and your glory
March 6, 2011 by
Today is the Sunday next before Lent; it’s the last Sunday in this period of Ordinary Time before we move into the Lenten penitential season — It’ll be Ash Wednesday this week. We can see in this Collect that … [Read more...]
That we may know eternal peace
March 21, 2010 by
The traditional name for today, The Fifth Sunday of Lent, is Passion Sunday. It marks the beginning of the last two weeks of Lent, traditionally called Passiontide. I think the Roman Catholic Church has, since 1969, … [Read more...]
You know our struggle to serve you
March 14, 2010 by
Regular readers of this blog will know that I struggle quite a bit with my health. And anyone that read last Sunday's reflection on the Collect will know that it has been particularly bad recently. Sadly, I'm not about … [Read more...]
Friday Foto
March 12, 2010 by
This is a picture of the splendid High Altar at Godmanchester Church. The impressive reredos of the high altar with its gilt wood carving and figures was designed in 1901 by G F Bodley. The purple frontal, used in Lent … [Read more...]
Give us insight to discern your will for us
March 7, 2010 by
Over the last few weeks, my health, which is never good, has been particularly unstable. And, in fact, the last couple of weeks it has been really poor. I've been getting a lot of pain, which has frequently been keeping … [Read more...]
By following in his Way come to share in his glory
February 28, 2010 by
One of the names the early Church used for itself was "The Way". We first read of it in The Acts of the Apostles (see: Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4, 24:14, 26). That may well be an extension of a use already found in the Old … [Read more...]
Grew closer to you in the desert
February 21, 2010 by
Have you ever spent time in the desert? The closest I've come to spending time in a physical desert, is when we've had occasional water shortages here in England -- which are as nothing in comparison to many parts of the … [Read more...]
The Really Big Sale
February 20, 2010 by
How do you deal with temptation? Do you yield to it, or resist it? We're all tempted at sometime or other, even Jesus was. Here's a thought-provoking little story about one salesman's failure to resist a temptation set … [Read more...]
Andrew Gosden (now 19) has been missing from his Doncaster home since 14 September 2007. The search continues.
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