Author Archives: Alison

I wrote the last post after a ministers’ breakfast and now here I am again after another one.  Not the same lot of ministers, though: this time colleagues from the different churches in the town.  Anyway, I guess it’s encouraging … Continue reading →

At our regional ministers’ breakfast this morning, our regional leader, as usual, brought us an inspirational talk.  Today’s was based on the account in Acts 3 of Peter and John bringing healing to the man at the Beautiful Gate – … Continue reading →

I’ve often wondered when I’ve driven past this building why it has such a grand name.  Really, Furthermore Hall ought to be a Victorian pile, the setting for a Dickens story or some such, with ivy growing up the walls, … Continue reading →

September was a big month for us. On the  1st, W left the ministry team of our church to take on a full-time academic job again.  He now commutes quite a distance, stays away 3 nights a week and returns … Continue reading →

Stepping up has been a bit of a theme for us in church for the last couple of weeks; it was the subject of last week’s sermon from A, our worship director, who was his own best illustration as he … Continue reading →

I see a Christian midwife has sued a hospital for refusing to let her wear a dress instead of trousers in their operating theatres, on the grounds of a Deuteronomic command for women not to wear men’s clothing. What happened … Continue reading →

Yesterday was Pentecost Sunday, and as befits a Pentecostal church we had a glorious time of worship and ministry in the evening.  I’ve mentioned K before here, and I do so again to say that he told me before the … Continue reading →

In worship last night we sang a song which went, “Your grace is enough/more than I need…” and suddenly my mind did one of those, “Woh, hang on a minute” sort of loops.  Really?  More than I need? But I need … Continue reading →

Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading the Bible books of Judges, Ruth and 1 Samuel.  What an account of deeply flawed people attempting to speak and to act for God.  It’s common to talk of  a ‘Judges cycle’ … Continue reading →

Not the sort of shaking Jerry Lee Lewis meant, but there really is a lot  of shaking going on in the world at the moment.  Economic  shaking; political shaking; literal earth-shaking.  It’s common for Christians to talk about living in the … Continue reading →