Preached yesterday at St Francis’, Luton. The text was 1 Corinthians 12.1-11. Last week, I posted some thoughts as I was preparing. 9.15 version. 10.30 for 11.00 version. You can also see the accompanying presentation as a PDF.
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Apr 20 2012
Pound-shedding Update: Week One
Well, this hasn’t gone according to plan. Four days of extreme discipline. No chocolate, cake, crisps, beer, wine, sweets of any kind, biscuits has resulted in weight gain of 6lb! Here are the extremely perplexing numbers: Weight: 13st 10lb Wii Fit Age: 29 No, I don’t understand either! Update: I left it five minutes and …
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Apr 19 2012
Word as Wordle: 1 Corinthians 12.1-11
This Sunday at St Francis’, Luton, we start a preaching series looking at the gifts of the Spirit. Unsurprisingly, the reading therefore is 1 Corinthians 12.1-11. Here’s the Wordle: It is clear that the word Paul uses most here is Spirit – the emphasis is on the work of the divine Spirit, not on the …
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Apr 16 2012
Let the pound-shedding begin!
Since we moved to Luton, I’ve allowed myself to put on a bit of weight, with the result that I’m currently about 12lb overweight. Less than a stone but still not ideal. Easter’s now passed and with it the compulsion to eat chocolate in large quantities and so I’ve decided to re-adopt a regime that …
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Apr 12 2012
“The” Melling Road
This year’s Grand National meeting begins today. The eyes of the racing world will be on the village where I grew up, Aintree. There will be three days of fantastic racing action (starting with the Liverpool Hurdle at 1400BST), a lot of bets, some silly hats and, worst of all, three days of people getting …
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Apr 08 2012
Sermon: He is risen!
Recorded this morning, 10.30 for 11.00 version only. It was All-Age so it’s quite short! Mark 16.1-8 – He is risen!
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Apr 07 2012
What kind of day has it been?
I have been loaned the DVDs of Sports Night which I am currently enjoying. For those who don’t know, this was what Aaron Sorkin did before The West Wing and it’s Sorkin through and through. No-one’s writing and characterisation raises my heart-rate like Aaron Sorkin’s. If, like most in the UK, you’ve missed out on …
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Apr 02 2012
YAESCu (Yet Another Epic Sermon Catch-up)
I have again allowed a long period of time to pass since I last posted a link to the audio for my sermons, so another catch-up is required: 19 February – 1 Thessalonians 5 “Live in the Light”: 9.15 version; 10.30 for 11.00 version. 22 February – Isaiah 58; Matthew 6.1-6,16-21 “Ash Wednesday“ 25 March …
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Mar 17 2012
The following motion
Today, St Albans Diocesan Synod voted to reject the Anglican Covenant. It then voted overwhelmingly in favour of a following motion proposed by Christina Rees and also proposed across the dioceses. I mentioned it in passing in my exhaustive live tweeting of the Synod this morning and promised I would say more now. So here …
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Mar 14 2012
Three Cities named as “New” Cities!
[BBC News Story] Three new cities have apparently been announced – one each in England, Wales and Scotland. They are Chelmsford, St Asaph and Perth respectively. There’s only one problem with this. They were all cities already. A city is somewhere that has a Cathedral and all three places in question have a cathedral. Don’t …
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