I spent last weekend at Ashburnham Place on retreat as part of my training towards Licensed Lay Ministry. This was different to the other training sessions I have attended as part of the course in that there was no teaching as such, nor was the subject matter geared towards any sort of assignment. Instead, it […]
As a smug Mac user for the last decade, memories of needing to defrag Windows PC hard drives are, thankfully, well in the past. For the uninitiated, PCs don’t always store data on hard drives in the tidiest way, and over time this can cause the computer to slow down and not run efficiently. ‘Defragging’ the […]
This morning, I preached at Pip & Jim’s morning services. We’re currently working through Ephesians, and I was speaking on 4:17 – 5:2 – the section headed “Instructions for Christian Living”. I was focussing on how St Paul balances rebuking the Church in Ephesus for living like the Gentiles with making sure they know about […]
As part of my training for Licensed Lay Ministry, I’ve been considering what defines public worship, and how worship relates to mission, growth and pastoral care. I wrote an essay exploring this issue further which you can read below, or download as a PDF. Let’s start a conversation…What do you think? Are there other key […]