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Ross Moughtin
Feb 26, 2021
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, 2021
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...
Ross Moughtin
Feb 12, 2021
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...
Ross Moughtin
Feb 5, 2021
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,...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 29, 2021
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...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 22, 2021
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. ...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 15, 2021
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’...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 8, 2021
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...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 1, 2021
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...
Ross Moughtin
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...
Ross Moughtin
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...
Ross Moughtin
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: ...
Ross Moughtin
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...
Ross Moughtin
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...
Ross Moughtin
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...
Ross Moughtin
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...
Ross Moughtin
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...
Ross Moughtin
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...
Ross Moughtin
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...
Ross Moughtin
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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