12 April 2021
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Below are some notes that outline the reflection I shared with the church PCC tonight, on the topic of being willing to change your mind. One of the fundamental principles as we meet and discuss is that you are allowed … Continue reading
25 December 2017
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Merry Christmas. Here is my card design for this year, which I’ve called Road to Jerusalem. Jerusalem, not Bethlehem? It isn’t really so far away and it is where the Christmas story is leading to. Two of the gospel writers … Continue reading
21 October 2016
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I take a jazz-flavoured approach to food. It is all about improvising with the available ingredients but I don’t disparage recipe books (standards) because they encourage you to expand your palette even if you play fast and loose with the … Continue reading
6 April 2015
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Lamb seems a very appropriate meat for an Easter meal being the celebration of Jesus, the Lamb of God, who has taken away the sins of the world and so yesterday wasn’t the first time I have made that choice … Continue reading
7 November 2014
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I’ve sung Jerusalem twice this week; once at a funeral and again at last night’s Cowley Deanery Synod meeting. I’ve mused before on whether the intended answer to the questions in verse one should be “no” rather than “yes”. Surely … Continue reading
30 June 2013
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One of the two congregational songs at yesterday’s wedding was Blakes Jerusalem. It does have a stirring tune and a magnificent reputation but I have always assumed that the simple answer to the questions posed in the first stanza is … Continue reading