Influence

Mark’s sermon on seeds last weekend touched on the idea of influence and statistics (quite a rare combination, in my experience!) When discussing the parable of the sower, he said that a pessimist (generally speaking, that’s me!) sees the...

A word for today

“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.” (1 Cor 13:11 TNIV)Last week we had the privilege of looking after a toddler for the day (an exhausting but enriching and fulfilling occasion!) and once again I...

Seeds (2)

Mark’s sermon looked at the topic of seeds. Without seeds, there can be no harvest; we have to plant the seeds in order to have germinated crops to harvest. As the quiz demonstrated, seeds don’t always look like the thing they grow into.The tiny...

Seeds

Tonight’s family service was on the theme of ‘Seeds’. As with a traditional harvest festival, we brought a variety of foods to give to the community: Then we had a quiz from the ‘Book of Seeds’ where we had to identify what the seeds grew...

Applied faith

There are essentially two branches of mathematics: pure maths and applied maths. Pure maths deals with the development of the principles of mathematics for the sake of the principles of mathematics. It’s quite close to philosophy in that sense. The interest is in the...