Archive | August 2012

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FRIENDSHIP EVANGELISM

After more than 50 years as a Christian, and more than 40 years as a Pastor, I have come to the conclusion that the only really acceptable form of evangelism is ‘friendship evangelism’. If we don’t genuinely care about people as people, and only see them as some kind of ‘conversion fodder’, we are doing […]

WOODGINESS

I wonder if you are familiar with Rob Lacey’s amusing sceptical send up – too near the truth for the liking of many, I suspect – of the shallowness of much Christianity today: ‘O Lord, we worship your woodginess. For you are the Forever Fluffy One, the All Squidgy, Squiggly One. And we giggle and […]

HYMNS AND ARIAS

Hands up all those who remember Max Boyce, the Welsh comedian, singer and entertainer. He rose to fame during the mid-1970s with an act that combined musical comedy with his passion for rugby union and his origins in the mining communities of South Wales. Having sold more than two million albums in a career spanning […]