Want to join me in supporting a good cause? I’m raising money for Dorset Mind by running Yeovil Half Marathon and your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate a little or a lot. I’ve chosen this charity because of my professional experience in mental health nursing and personal family experience of mental health […]
From the Revs
On Being Energised
I have recently read Becoming by Michelle Obama. Perhaps you received a copy for Christmas? I was fascinated about her description of her dedicated and focused career plan which enabled her to become a high-flying lawyer in a Chicago law firm. She contrasted her single mindedness and determination in achieving her aims to her husband’s […]
Christmas 2018 Sermon
For our Shepherds in the St Luke’s Gospel account of that first Christmas Eve it started as just an ordinary night watching over their flock of sheep. They had no inclination of the disturbance to their lives that was about to happen and the ‘news of great joy’ they were about to be part of. […]
Our Christmas 2018 Theme
I’ve been asked recently what the theme for Christmas this year is. Over the last few years we have knitted sheep, nativity scenes, given away angels and followed the star. All engaging ways of communicating the birth of Christ with our local communities and having lots of fun along the way. But this year I […]
On Being Provoked (Hebrews 10)
Those of you who have ever done any bible study with me will know that I often say as a first question – what jumps out at you, what makes you go hmm? For me, in this passage, it is the interesting verb in verse 24, how to provoke one another to love and good […]
Touching Christmas Adverts
There’s a relatively new Phenomenon on the telly in these days before Christmas. Have you noticed over the last few years, there has begun to be an informal competition for the most clever/touching/dramatic narrative Christmas advert? Two penguins competes with an extensive Christmas table from a budget supermarket and a chain stores marauding fairies and […]
Remembrance Sunday 2018
Like an innocent child wandering by itself into the kitchen and pressing the switches that will set the house on fire, some biblical texts have been taken out of their original setting and used in ways that would have horrified the original speaker or writer. Here in this passage we have one with exactly that […]