musings on ministry
I was delighted to be invited to speak at the Spiritual Care Forum today. Here’s what I said…. Good morning. Thank you so much for the invitation to speak here today. I’m going to talk a bit about why spiritual care is important to me and what it looks like in my community. My first Read More …
I haven’t published a sermon for a long time. They’re available on the St Ninian’s website but it felt like following the events of the last weeks and months this was something that needed said. You can listen and the text is below. [podbean resource=”episode=ss7dk-93db5f” type=”audio-rectangle” height=”100″ skin=”1″ btn-skin=”107″ share=”1″ fonts=”Helvetica” auto=”0″ download=”0″ rtl=”0″] A Read More …
Why? How? What? Why do we do the things we do in the way we do them? I wonder what the most important part of the question is? Is it the things that we do? Is it the way that we do them? Or is it the why? For me the ‘why’ is the most Read More …
I wonder how often we say ‘Thanks’? I wonder how often we say it to the people we are really thankful for? The practice of gratitude is a simple way to completely change your outlook on life. It’s the start of that radical life-change we talked about last week. Thankfulness. Gratitude. Whatever you want to Read More …
We come to the end of our journey through the Gospel of John this Sunday as we tackle john 20:19-31. It’s evening on Easter Day, the disciples are scared and locked in a room. Apart from Thomas. He’s somewhere else. And Jesus appears. A whole load of stuff is happening in this short passage. Jesus Read More …
The Gospel of John is about revelation. Who is Jesus? Who are we? All the encounters we have witnessed as we journeyed through this Gospel tell us the truth about Jesus, the people he met, and about ourselves. The trial before Pilate lays bare humanity. Our humanity. It shows us just where power really lies Read More …
The questions we ask expose our priorities. Are you the king of the Jews? That’s Pilate’s question to Jesus in John 18:28-40. That’s the only question that matters to a political governor. Are you a problem for me? But Pilate is asking the wrong questions… so Jesus asks some of his own. The exchange ends Read More …