Today is ‘Stir Up’ Sunday – the day that people are supposed to stir up their Christmas pudding ingredients and let them settle before cooking the pudding for Christmas. In the wider Christian church it is ‘Christ the King Sunday’, and the last one before the Christian ‘new year’ on the First Sunday of Advent. … More Spirituality on Sunday: Stir up Sunday…
I felt a call to study through Romans in my personal study time recently – not for the purpose of preaching anything or preparing anything from it, but just for building myself up in the study of God’s word in a focussed way. So far, I’ve been unable to get beyond the challenge of 1: … More Missional Thursday: Obliged, eager and unashamed…
Casually I approach the eternal throne, and view the prize which I think is my own. That is not what Charles Wesley wrote. It’s what I wrote just there after some time in prayer this morning. I’ve become sick of my own lazy spiritual self, taking Christ for granted and my salvation as a given. … More Casually I come…
I guess most people still think of prayer as a relatively passive event which happens behind closed doors. Heads bowed, eyes closed sort of idea. It is certainly not always the case the the church isn’t praying for the world, for its communities or people involved. We even pray for missional outreach – which is … More Mission Thursday: Missional Prayer
I felt unwell recently and took myself to the doctor. They are doing tests to check my heart is ok. I’m glad about that – would rather they check and find out than not. No one wants an untreated heart issue. And that’s what I want to talk about today. I’m not overly concerned about … More It’s a heart issue…
It just dawned on me. Speaking at the Seniors Fellowship at church, I decided, as it was my first time, that I’d tell them some stories from life and ministry thus far by way of intro. You always get to know people truly through the stories they tell about themselves, so it was my turn. … More Blog Extra: I need new stories…
I watched this lovely little video, ‘Godspeed: The Pace of Being Known’ a few months ago. It is a beautiful video featuring the experience of an American pastor moving to Scotland and finding a different pace of life. I do have to say, as a Scotsman myself, that some of what comes across in the … More Spirituality on Sunday: Godspeed
I stood up in front of the couple of hundred people in the regional mid-week SA worship service and told them that the cost of just one of the new tubas behind me would could feed 300 families for a week. *mic drop* I don’t think I made many friends. Young. Idealistic. Out of a … More Mission Thursday: For the least…
Having recently discovered that I managed to miss nearly 3 months of blogging over the summer, I thought I’d have a think about regulating my blogging frequency! Back in the heyday of the blogging thing I was writing, along with several others in the same kinda community, on average of 3/4 times a week. That’s … More New Blog Posts
I’ve got a recovering blister on the pad of my left thumb and a couple small cuts on my index finger. On the right hand, some tenderness in the centre of the palm and some roughness to the skin on the side of my index finger. So what?! Well, I picked up a new ‘skill’ … More Carving out a life…
Andrew S M Clark 