May 11th 2011 -
Have you ever played those memory games where you cover over ten objects with a tea towel and then try and remember what was there? I was always rubbish at those – I like looking ahead, my memory is shocking. But memory is a great gift – as humans we are able to remember, to think on, and to celebrate what has been....
May 10th 2011 -
Botch jobs go wrong – sooner or later. TV programs are devoted to lazy surgeons operating without truly knowing what they're doing, and cowboy builders doing jobs worthy of announcing your home as a hazard. Your God isn't a God of the botch job I apologise lads, this is about to get a tad girly. Because what better picture of the anti-botch job...
May 9th 2011 -
In the Spring of 1912, Julian Huxley took two weeks holiday from his studies at Cambridge University. He spent them at Tring Reservoirs in Hertfordshire, observing, recording and describing the behaviour of Great Crested Grebes. No one had ever recorded the behaviour of wildlife before, previously natural science was located solely in the laboratory. Huxley published his findings and single...
May 5th 2011 -
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ll probably be aware that a referendum is taking place today, asking voters whether they want to change how MPs are elected in General Elections. Until 10pm, we have the opportunity to provide our answer to the question: "At present, the UK uses the 'first past the post' system to elect MPs to the...
May 4th 2011 -
Are the students in your church the example that you yearn to see the younger and older generation follow? Are they the ones who set a high bar in terms of faithfulness, love of God and obedience to His amazing way? Do you expect to see that? Do you believe that’s possible? The apostle Paul writes to his mentee Timothy and encourages him...
May 3rd 2011 -
Right, now here’s a tricky question for you. Could you love a murderer? I have a philosophy: ‘To be known, is to be loved’. To know one is to love one and you can only love as much as you know. Recently I found myself musing as to whether there were exceptions to my rule. Could there be people who are...
May 2nd 2011 -
“I’m sorry, but you have a problem.” In my life this sentence is usually followed by “this ticket was only valid yesterday” or “this PC has crashed again, buy a mac” or even “there is a duck dying noisily in your garden”. These are all things that have been said to me. It is often annoying when someone tells you that...
