Ross Moughtin
When God bounces your life up and down
“Let me tell you a story.” This could be an introduction to the scriptures – for that is what the Bible is, a story, with a beginning,...
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Ross Moughtin
- Nov 8, 2013
When someone listens
One thing I learnt from my time as a young reporter at the Crosby Herald/Formby Times is that you can always track someone down. This...
Ross Moughtin
- Nov 1, 2013
Leaving old habits behind
It’s strange how simple events can remind you of particular people. Putting the demerara sugar on my porridge this morning reminded me of...
Ross Moughtin
- Oct 25, 2013
What to do with a good idea
To have a great idea is the easy part. It’s the doing which counts. As my fellow Evertonian, Sir Terry Leahy, observed “execution is...
Ross Moughtin
- Oct 18, 2013
Keep on keeping on
Tomorrow – assuming I get away from the Diocesan Synod in good time – I will be running through 10 kms of mud in the two-lap Standish...
Ross Moughtin
- Oct 11, 2013
The importance of saying Thank you!
So there I was, being driven in a taxi through the heart of the Finnish countryside in the midnight sun singing “We plough the fields and...
Ross Moughtin
- Oct 4, 2013
An untidy desk? You need Jesus
This desk is a mess. So before I do anything else, it needs tidying. As Mr Aspinall taught me in primary school: “A tidy desk means a...
Ross Moughtin
- Sep 27, 2013
We all need encouragement
The owner of Norton Grange hotel, opposite our vicarage in Rochdale, was planning to open a health club. He came over to win our support....
Ross Moughtin
- Sep 20, 2013
Jesus and no red shoes
Which size of red shoes would the new Pope be wearing? A Vatican official was being interviewed on preparations for electing the new...
Ross Moughtin
- Sep 13, 2013
When we find ourselves in a Godincidence
That God works in our lives is a fundamental. The question is how? For the truth is that as we speak, as I type this, God is at work at...
Ross Moughtin
- Sep 6, 2013
When every option seems wrong
Barack Obama is in an impossible situation. It seems clear the Syrian regime has been using chemical weapons and what is more, using...
Ross Moughtin
- Aug 30, 2013
When to pray in French
Louange et gloire à toi Dieu de Jésus-Christ! Louange et gloire à toi Source de la vie! The fact that I didn’t know what ‘louange”...
Ross Moughtin
- Aug 23, 2013
Cheque centre - two worlds in one place
As soon as I entered the Cheque Centre shop in Burscough Street yesterday afternoon, I realized this was not the kind of place Archbishop...
Ross Moughtin
- Aug 16, 2013
Nourished by New Wine
So here I am once again, in the middle of a very large field in Nottinghamshire, writing this blog as the sun (rather than the usual...
Ross Moughtin
- Aug 2, 2013
Why Jesus puts us on the spot
7.10 am this morning, the phone goes just as I am eating my porridge, thinking about what to write for this blog. Jacqui upstairs answers:...
Ross Moughtin
- Jul 26, 2013
Christians - a soft touch
“A lie can travel half way around the world.” observed the renown Baptist minister Charles Spurgeon, “while the truth is putting on its...
Ross Moughtin
- Jul 19, 2013
Will you be my friend, please?
Will you be my friend, please? Walking past the new stationery shop in Church Walks, a particular greeting card caught my eye. ...
Ross Moughtin
- Jul 12, 2013
Local church, global outreach
Tommy Halsall was a fixture of Aughton. Serving as verger and sexton, school caretaker, choir member and bellringer, he served Christ...
Ross Moughtin
- Jul 5, 2013
Nazareth may be a dump but still home
I am sending this blog from just ten minutes walk away from the most religious road in the country! In terms of the sheer number of the...
Ross Moughtin
- Jun 28, 2013
Banks can sin - and they do
So its seems that not only will I be paid by the Church of England, I could be banking with the CofE as well! The financial press is...