Mosaic mess

I’ve been continuing to take mosaic workshops this week with a kids’ club in Thurnscoe and in two primary schools. As always, making a mosaic is a messy process. The grout seems to get everywhere and even at the end of a session, the finished product is in...

Goal or Gaol?

Sometimes when I’m typing quickly, letters are transposed. This often renders a word unintelligible (e.g. hte), which the spellchecker instantly picks up. Sometimes, however, transposition of certain letters creates a valid word which is not what is meant in...

Obstacles or opportunities?

Yan’s words about attitudes reminded me of our visit to Ramsey Elim Community Church last week while we were on holiday. Part of the service involved a prayer walk around the town, stopping at different locations to pray for various needs. Unfamiliar with the...

Weakness Is Our Greatest Strength (2)

Yan’s third point in his sermon ‘Weakness Is Our Greatest Strength’ asked the question ‘How do we turn our weakness into strength?’ We do this as we live by spiritual principles rather than rational understanding. In order to see weakness...

Weakness Is Our Greatest Strength

Yan Hadley’s provocative title ‘Weakness is our greatest strength’ cuts across our preconceived ideas of success. God’s word frequently speaks of paradoxes, however: how we must lose our lives in order to gain them, how the first will be last...