One of the most discomforting of Scriptural statistics is that when the Lord Jesus speaks to the churches in Revelation 2-3 five of the seven have something of which they need to repent. It is a helpful caution for us against the complacency that says we must be OK. It is a reminder as to […]
August always feels like a quiet month in the life of the church with many people away. September is likely to be very different… There are two big issues for us as a church in the month of September. The first is that we will be moving out of our current premises in order for […]
I promise this is the last of my contributions on the subject. However, if you want more Olympic reflections then you could try the following from Neil Powell, Krish Kandiah and John Stevens. Towards the end of the Olympics, most conversations turned towards the subject of legacy. What will be the long term impact of London […]
Inspire a Generation. There was a cartoon in one of the newspapers with the motto of London 2012 as the subtitle. It was a picture of a couple watching the Olympics. The husband says, “This really is inspiring. We must get a bigger television.” I can sympathize- I suspect that the part of my body […]
I love a good montage- and there were plenty around in the last weekend of the Olympics. I always find it powerful when you see images of defeat and victory spliced together- pictures of despair and ecstasy. The agony of defeat was evident in a number of interviews during the Olympics. After being eliminated from […]
Everybody appears to be making the contrast between our Olympic athletes and footballing heroes. It’s not hard to understand why this is the case. I heard many interviews with Olympic performers over the last two weeks and, as a general rule, they came across as humble and generous in their praise of coaches, opponents and […]
Apologies to those who didn’t enjoy them- but I loved the Olympics. I am just back to work after two and a half weeks of holiday- and it would be fair to say that the time was dominated by the events in London. Along with my parents I spent a couple of days in the […]