Category: Past Journey

All of Grace

Forty odd years ago, when I first became a Christian, God did not look at me and think ‘what a great catch’, he saw a train wreck. My life has changed immeasurably since, yet, as God’s call on my life has come into sharper focus, the extent to which I fall short has become exposed. […]

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What matters?

When I was 17 I encountered a God who was willing to die for me. From that point on my life was turned upside down. This came about through reading a book, a book which also told me that I needed to hold a literal view of the accounts of Adam and Eve, and seven […]

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Mind the Gap

The train pulls in at the station and the announcement is heard: “Mind the gap”. It is an iconic sound of London, a warning that there is a gap between the train and the platform a gap where danger lies. When I began to boil down my notes I was not sure where it would […]

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Suffering

Some people may struggle with this post and, to be honest, I’m not sure how comfortable I am with it. God just does not neatly fit into my idea of what he should be like, so shaped am I by my culture. It is easy to question whether the authors of John’s Gospel and John’s […]

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A Less Ordinary Life

Some people inspire us, sometimes they are great men like Martin Luther King, but at other times they are ordinary people, like a seventeenth century monk working in a kitchen. Brother Lawrence lived in the presence of God. As far as he was concerned God was interested in every area of his life and it […]

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