Category Archives: Theology
Shout It Out
Forget the neighbours…
Brexit Worship LIVE
Go to bed thinking about the gospel not tossing and turning over Brexit.
#SYNOD
With the inner sanctums of the Church of England meeting this week, for God-only-knows-what, invitations are now welcome for appropriate ICHABOD-related acronyms of SYNOD. I’ve decided to keep it squeaky-clean and go with: Stop Your Nonsense Of Doctrine I’m pleased to announce that in a few months time I will be able to publish aContinue reading “#SYNOD”
Earthly Use
They talk about being “so heavenly minded to be of no earthly use”. I’d like to smash this myth… …the inference of this statement is that thinking outside the supernatural order and realm of things has a limited shelf life (a little is OK but a lot isn’t) but this isn’t quite the point: EvenContinue reading “Earthly Use”
Yearn
Give me a man in love; he knows what I mean. Give me one who yearns; give me one who is hungry; give me one far away in this desert, who is thirsty and sighs for the spring of the Eternal country. Give me that sort of man; he knows what I mean. But ifContinue reading “Yearn”
Into the Pray – Joy
Debut I was stood in a church worshipping last week when something happened that I have never seen before in more than 36 years of being in church. A family of strangers were standing to my left and beautiful Mairi was standing to my right as the service was in full swing. As I stood with my…
Joy Misunderstood
The Bothy Sessions are, in part, an autobiographical commentary regarding part of my pursuit of Jesus for the last thirty years. It has been (and is) a pursuit that is both deleriously joyful and deeply depressing.
The Bothy Sessions: Jesus Sojourn
If you’re a Christian and you’ve worried that your mental health isn’t what it ‘should be’, be encouraged in Jesus’ Name!
Maugrim & The Secret Scottish Police
I had just got out of a taxi outside Newcastle train station and I was burning with the Holy Spirit of God.