Encountering God in our everyday lives

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2 days ago

When we view our memories

At two frames a second, it’s going to take months, even years! And for years I’ve been waiting for the technology to arrive at a price I...

Ross Moughtin

Feb 19

When God asks you to do the impossible

Fifty years ago yesterday Logos was launched and with her the launch of a remarkable ministry to the nations. Over the past five decades...

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Feb 12

When the way ahead is uncertain

Mea culpa: I have booked a holiday, even one abroad. It seemed a good idea last July. As such it was a great deal some 11 months in ad...

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Feb 5

Trainers as subversive

Like a child with a new toy, I’m excited by a Christmas present, delayed by the pandemic, which Hermes delivered only yesterday. Yes, I'...

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Jan 29

Now that I am unblinded

The long-awaited phone call came from our GP – and so it was time to unblind me. You may recall that last summer I took part in the plac...

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Jan 22

Tough times for young people

This blog should have been coming to you from sunny Tenerife but it isn’t. Like everyone Jacqui and I have been hit by the pandemic. It...

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Jan 15

How to be bored in church

I hated church, I hated church with every atom of my being – but still my parents sent me. We’re talking about St Nicholas’ Blundellsand...

Image of spring, too brilliant to be true

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Jan 8

Image of spring, too brilliant to be true

Hard frost this morning. As the day begins, the entire field behind our house is whitened by the frost; cold and stark. I look at the ho...

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Jan 1

When we see the wrong future

“Thank God,” headlines this morning’s Daily Mail. “2021 is here at last!’ Exactly. Of course, for many the Year of the Optician is bes...

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Dec 24, 2020

The Saviour is in the detail

On this Holy Night (I’m writing this on Christmas Eve) lights are going on all over Europe as legislators and bureaucrats work their way...

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Dec 18, 2020

Tears, an invitation to God

“If in doubt, burst into tears!” Of course, not for all situations, especially if you are being goaded – but often it takes tears to show...

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Dec 11, 2020

When God keeps Fergie time.

We are now entering ‘last minute’ territory, at least judging by the headlines in this morning’s papers. The Times speaks for them all: ...

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Dec 4, 2020

Vaccination, a spiritual battlefield

Over the months I have become a master practitioner in assembling the little cardboard box, the container chosen to safely convey my swab...

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Nov 27, 2020

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.

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Nov 20, 2020

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...

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Nov 13, 2020

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...

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Nov 6, 2020

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...

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Oct 30, 2020

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...

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Oct 23, 2020

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, 2020

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...

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