Encountering God in our everyday lives

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A very different Christmas!

This Christmas is going to be outside. So I have bought, sadly from Amazon, our first outdoor projector lights to dazzle the neighbourho...

When what should have happened didn't actually happen.

Ross Moughtin

Nov 20

When what should have happened didn't actually happen.

“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.” So tweeted Ivanka Trump in quoting Albert Einstein. Except that Albert never sai...

Ross Moughtin

Nov 13

How fast does God move?

Q How fast does God move? A 3 mph. It’s a lovely morning (but rain is on the way). Outside my window the sun is catchin...

Ross Moughtin

Nov 6

When we would believe the lie

I had been expecting Nicodemus but to my horror Diotrephes turned up instead. I was preaching at a service for the Heswall council of ch...

Ross Moughtin

Oct 30

Who knows where we are?

“This is not a circular.” I knew something was amiss as I opened the envelope and I wasn’t wrong: it was a penalty notice from a privat...

Ross Moughtin

Oct 23

Are we right to be cynical?

The question I kept asking myself watching BBC’s Roadkill this week was “Is this really true to life or simply David Hare projecting his ...

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Oct 16

Keeping the Scousers out

The police, I know, are on full alert as we await the influx, invasion even, of those from the other side of the border. As Ormskirk and...

Ross Moughtin

Oct 9

To forgive is to remember aright

To forgive is not to forget but to remember aright. That seems to be have one of the conclusions of the report produced this week from t...

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Oct 2

When to be frightened

Just like President Trump with the coronavirus, you can’t simply dismiss the threat of evil as if it wasn’t there. As he enters self-iso...

Ross Moughtin

Sep 25

It may take a century - but keep at it.

A blog to inspire, especially if you think nothing is happening and your labour apparently in vain. As author Jon Bloom observes “Christi...

Ross Moughtin

Sep 18

Jesus, a good-looker?

MORE GLEE, VICAR? My heart goes out to Rev Dr Matt Davis, the new vicar just over the moss at St Luke’s Formby. Those of you who have al...

Never – unless absolutely essential - conduct your financial transactions in Welsh.

Ross Moughtin

Sep 11

Never – unless absolutely essential - conduct your financial transactions in Welsh.

You will regret it. I learnt that lesson the hard way yesterday when drawing cash at a Santander cash point. As I peered into the scree...

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Sep 4

When Sin shows its power

“Gross injustice demonstrates a basic premise: in our world: something is terribly wrong and cries out to be put right.” I’ve pulled thi...

Ross Moughtin

Aug 28

How we will remember covid?

“When difficult times are past and periods of growth and flourishing have come – when the wilderness seems far away – what do we do with ...

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Aug 21

Epiphany in Arizona

Blokes of my age and era are notoriously bad in keeping in touch. I find, like Peter Kay the best way for keeping track of old friends i...

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Aug 14

Why the iconoclasm?

“Where’s Zimbabwe?” I finally asked my fellow student Richard, responding to the prominent lapel badge he invariably wore with the legend...

Ross Moughtin

Aug 7

Becoming my father.

“Ross, you look just like your father!” Only yesterday evening, while visiting our daughter, Jacqui once again glimpsed in me my late fa...

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Jul 31

We need to cuddle our bunny

You will surprised to know that over an entire decade this is only the second blog I have posted featuring an escaped rabbit. You may re...

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Jul 24

When guilt knocks at your door

“Not today, thank you.” His face fell, he appeared completely dispirited before walking away. Jacqui is always unnerved when this happen...

Ross Moughtin

Jul 17

What masks do to us

“When you wear a mask, you have my respect,” declares actor Morgan Freeman in the tone he uses when playing God. “Because your mask doesn...

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