the waiting country

a love theme for the wilderness

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

with head bowed

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I'm taking a few moments just to bow my head and give thanks for my Dad, who passed away 5 years ago today. I sat with him whilst he too...
Monday, 22 November 2010

managing the creativity of ministry

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This article by Cal Newport is not ministry focussed but has some helpful principles for managing the creative demands of regular ministry
Thursday, 18 November 2010

The Moon in Lleyn (R S Thomas)

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The last quarter of the moon of Jesus gives way to the dark; the serpent digests the egg. Here on my knees in this stone church, that is ful...
Monday, 15 November 2010

i think i should start saving my pennies now

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Fujimura - 4 Holy Gospels from Crossway on Vimeo .
Friday, 12 November 2010

friday night spotify: dazzle ships

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Having enjoyed the duet with The Masked Badger on 'Great Albums...', here's something a bit different and worth a listen: the c...
Tuesday, 9 November 2010

the great albums (xv) - rumours

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So, the last great album in my list - what a lot of fun this has been. There are so many others that ought to have been on here but Spotify ...
Saturday, 16 October 2010

whichever way you look at it...

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this is a (Kindle) bargain: For the Fame of God's Name (essays in honour of John Piper) 27 essays for £5.97 = 22p per essay!
Thursday, 14 October 2010

the great albums (xiv) - innervisions

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Stevie Wonder was a regular part of my Radio 1-filled days back in the 70s. I liked some of his singles a great deal; others were just ok. ...
Monday, 11 October 2010

the blue nile

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Only 4 albums in 26 years (so far). And, as far as I can see, no vast reservoir of bootlegs to expand the canon. Which means that in The Blu...
Tuesday, 5 October 2010

skinny river

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If you had to cut-down Springsteen 's sprawling double-album, The River , what would you keep and what would you ditch? And how would th...

the power of a rhetorical question

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Whilst reflecting on the life and ministry of Francis Schaeffer , Martin Downes asks a rhetorical question that reminded me just how powerf...
Saturday, 25 September 2010

the great albums (xiii) - sweet dreams (are made of this)

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It was their breakthrough album, after the interesting but transitionary In The Garden . And it may be surpassed in some minds by the next-u...
Sunday, 19 September 2010

the 500th post

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I know that things are bad when I catch myself no longer caring all that much, either way; worn down by endless abrasion, I'm ready to...
Monday, 13 September 2010

why bother exploring the deepest issues?

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Larry Crabb offers 3 reasons for going deep into our hearts, to expose the pain and the thirst: Freedom from compulsive sin requires an awar...

how to get at 'the thirst'

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...far too often hard questions get buried beneath a pile of memorised verses and stricter conformity to local standards of Christian conduc...
Friday, 10 September 2010

the uncertainty principle

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Ever heard of Heisenberg's principle? OK, smarty-pants; most of us haven't heard of it. But I came across a reference to it in an a...
Tuesday, 7 September 2010

Larry Crabb: on unmet desires

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We simply must get rid of the idea that the obedient Christian is supposed to feel good all the time. The springs of living water bathing ou...
Monday, 6 September 2010

like the angels

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Where there is no death there is no need for procreation, and so the exclusive relationship within which procreation takes place is no longe...

the great albums (xii) - after the goldrush

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He's already figured here - and I passed over the opportunity to make this selection at that time - but I just cannot avoid another Neil...

sanctification: just do it

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Mike Bird is concerned that "some are beginning to replace the imperative element in Christian sanctification...with the need for more...
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