At a conference last year, I was rather disparagingly told that I was too parochial. He was right because there you can be over parochial in being unable to see no further than the nose on your face. Yet, he was very wrong because we all live in a certain
Continue readingI love irony, and I’ve only just realised just how ironic my last blog was. It was a prime example of when what made perfect sense to me may have been just plain incomprehensible to you. Therefore, I will revise just how I am going to write this particular blog
Continue readingThe above is a well known quip about Pastors and the pattern of their week, but over the last 9 months or so it has become the pattern of us all. Unable to meet physically for worship or in how we love our town we have become both invisible and
Continue readingThis has been my longest blog series I’ve written because it resonates so much within me at this time. In all that I have written there is one element which Scripture repeatedly holds out to us as being foundational for being a Household of Faith and this is the practice
Continue reading‘For health and strength and daily food, we praise you name O Lord, Amen, Hoy!!’ Welcome to the Gore family way of saying grace. At home it’s loud and proud, much to Arthur’s amusement and if outside, it is a lot quieter, more to our children’s relief. An important part
Continue readingI do smile when people speak about getting back to being like the church in the New Testament. I do so because not only is it impossible but it is also a huge exercise in missing the point of why the New Testament was written. As I’ve said before, the
Continue readingWhat is your meal time like? When I ask this question, so many things come to mind. I think about my own childhood, or when I was a student, or first married, or the years when our children were young or not so quite young and now when three generations
Continue readingAs we’ve read through Acts I’ve picked out how Households played a key role in the life and vitality of the church. The instancing of Acts 2, 4 and 8 are samples that demonstrated how important Households were for the spread of the church through Judea and Samaria and this
Continue readingI have never seen Anne Frank’s house but I know it is a house with a secret. Today this secret is hardly a secret anymore as we all know about the hidden room used to hide Jews from the Nazis. It is a story of a Household daring to face
Continue readingThere is one thing I can almost guarantee and that is that you’re reading this at home. It’s not because of special revelation or guesswork, but because we’re in lockdown and so where else would you be? But there is something I don’t know and that is the question of
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