The Three Rs

Last night’s service started by listening to some theme tunes from films: it was surprising how quickly people could identify a film title from just a few notes of a famous theme tune, such as Jaws or Indiana Jones. Musical themes are a kind of ‘shorthand’,...

Continued professing development

CPD (continual professional development) is the buzzword in many workplaces these days, reminding us that we never stop learning. It’s easy to take a test and then sit back, having passed, and proceed to forget all we have learned. Many jobs nowadays are aware...

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3

‘Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3’ is the refrain often heard when testing sound levels on a microphone. Testing is a common feature of everyday life these days: when doing electrical jobs in a house, it’s wise to test a live current with a neon...

Church discipline

Tonight’s Bible study looked at the difficult topic of church discipline (1 Cor 5:1-13). The immediate cause for concern in this chapter is sexual immorality (a man was sleeping with his stepmother and seemed to think this was perfectly acceptable, as did others...

Igor’s continued adventures

Having ventured forth to celebrate the recent wedding, Igor has been travelling to foreign climes… though the sign below is rather misleading! Far from being in Paris, Igor was actually in North Wales: The view was almost like Switzerland, swans and all…...

God’s Fulness (Part 3)

Stephen continued his series on God’s fulness this evening, looking at the stumbling-block which often cause us to fail to experience God’s fulness in the way He wants us to. We often find it difficult to believe that God wants us to enter into His...