As many of our friends and acquaintances already know, Julia and I are looking to return to the Pastorate, somewhere or other, in the near future. Julia is now fully recovered from the chronic fatigue problems that led to her having to stand down from her position as Associate Minister at Beckenham Baptist Church nearly […]

I have a confession to make! Sometimes I really struggle with the use of bad language? For a big bloke (6ʹ4ʺ tall and weighing around 16 stone) I am normally very mild mannered – more Clark Kent than Superman. Occasionally, however, I really lose it?! It is always in the same place – when I […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We have out home group coming round next Tuesday for a barbecue so we thought we had better make sure that our new fire pit barbecue worked o.k. It was a lovely sunny evening but a bit windy. The barbecue worked fine, although the wind meant that the smoke blew in the direction of our […]

We have got our bikes out of the barn, cleaned off all the dust, pumped up the tyres, found our cycling helmets, and I have even found the Tour de France T-Shirt that I bought a few years ago which even fits me still – if I breathe in! Now we have done all this, […]

‘It was fixed!’ said the lady to her husband as they walked past us on their way back to the car park. ‘The winners were all related to the judges!’ she continued, picking up her poodle and giving it a hug. Julia and I were walking down the lane to the village Fête in Langton […]

The other day Julia and myself took a load of stuff down to the Weymouth Recycling Centre. We loaded up our car with all kinds of unwanted stuff that had been gathering in our barn for several months. There was something quite therapeutic about it – getting rid of all the rubbish! There were plastic […]

Yesterday we braved the elements, and the flooded roads, and drove down to Abbotsbury to see the Olympic Torch pass through on its way to Weymouth. Given the awful conditions – it was absolutely pouring with rain – there were a lot of people, all wrapped up in waterproofs, sheltering under a wonderful collection of […]