Deputy speaker of the House of Lords, Lord Sewel, has been caught on camera taking drugs with prostitutes. He was. seen rolling a five pound note up to snort cocaine. How Parliamentary standards are slipping. Only a fiver? With his earnings it should be a minimum of a £20 note.
Tory Blair.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has waded into the Labour leadership election by warning against Labour moving to the left. Story here. I believe he is wrong. Wrong because what I am hearing from disenchanted voters, some of whom did not vote, and some that did, is that there is no choice. All the parties …
Truth
My last blog mentioned the lies of Walter White in the TV shoe Breaking Bad. Lies seem so exciting, more glamorous than truth. Truth is what sets us free. So as Christians we have to be truthful. Yet there have been fiction masquerading as fact going for a long time. Take the sermon illustration of …
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad - (Contains Spoilers) I have got my life back. After watching the entire five seasons in three months, I now understand what all the fuss was about. That was a really good TV series. The story is about a schoolteacher who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Unable to pay for expensive treatment he …
Hanging on the telephone
In my job I hear a lot of voicemail messages. These range from the personalised, "You have reached Dan, leave a message," to the bizarre such as the voice of a Clint Eastwood impersonator saying, "Leave a message, punk, make my day." It is the non personalised messages that are fascinating. Although they are the …
the Bible
The Bible, What is it? Its a book of God and a book about God. But it is also a book about people, about peoples relationship with God, God's relationship with people and people's relationship with people. It is about God relating with individuals, with groups of people and nations. And it is about people …
*SLAP*
*SLAP* Strange gasses enter your lungs The pain builds Bright lights dazzle your eyes add you cry you scream with all your might. Being born is not easy. you enter this world in pain It sets you up for life Life full of pain, that is how the world is We spend our live avoiding …
How God became king – a sprint through the Bible
OK. Let's get this straight, God does not change. But the way God has reveaed himself over time has changed. This is a quick run through, starting with the earliest book of the Bible, Job. Not Genesis. Genesis belongs with the books of Moses, it deals with things before the Exodus, but it is a …
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Different ways
On the last day of the Holy Trinity Church weekend we were given a catch phrase, you know one of those short and supposed to be memorable. Like all other so called memorable phrases before I have forgotten it. So here is the long, boring, catch phrase free version. The church is suffering from amnesia. …
Things that make you go Hmm
This blog is about me. And about how I have felt about God in the 9 years since the accident. And about the church weekend. Three subjects that are somehow connected - this blog could be a mess. I have always believed in prayer. The prayer meeting has been my home since I became a …
Making an ass of myself 