Stuck in the Middle with you. Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you, And I'm wondering what it is I should do, So sang Gerry Rafferty on Stealers Wheel's 1972 hit. I've been feeing like that a lot recently. My relationship with God, and more particularly with the church, is going through a tough …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Imagine…
Imagine there's no heaven, I'ts easy if you try... So sang John Lennon in what is many people's favourite song, But I hear that many Evangelical Christians don't like it. And for good reason, it imagines a world without God. What's so good about imagination anyway? Tou can imagine death to enemies, imagine yourself getting …
When was the last …
I don't usually re-blog. But this one is different. Fragmentz is someone whose blogs I have been following for some time, her faith in God despite all she has been through, is inspiring. The blogs themselves can make me angry, or fill me with hope, or inspire me, or make me cry. Mostly cry. This …
Preserving the Community
Holbeck Working Men's Club may close.So I don't live in Holbeck, or even Leeds, but I do listen to BBC Radio Leeds. A story this morning was that the club is to hold a family fun day in order to attract new members. They see their decline as being part of the decline of the …
Hello old friend
After a long time, and old friend has got back in touch.Noel was a fellow member of a series of bands I was in in the seventies and eighties. In fact we were the only constants in a very changing lineup. For about half of that time I've been working shifts, which makes being a …
Car Hits Cyclist
Car Hits CyclistThis is the sort of story that attracts me, having spent the last seven years with an injures foot due to having been a cyclist in collision with a car. But instead of a diatribe against motorists, which is what people would expect, I'm taking the other tack.Like most cyclist I don't want to own the roads, but I …
A night to remember
Two years ago a local Christian youth group in our town had three members -- questions were being asked about whether to continue. Now there are seventeen of them, last night ten of these made history by being in a very ecumenical service. Rather than split them up so that those attending the Anglican church …
Making an ass of myself 