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This last week and the week we’re about to enter into are not just any old weeks. if you don’t know we are actually right in the middle of ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’ which is a yearly two weeks aiming to raise awareness of Fairtrade and aimed at encouraging more people to source Fairtrade products as part [...]

Over the last few years I’ve been gradually recording a series of songs which I’ve written and they’re at the place now where it’s really just a matter of recording the odd vocal track and mixing them. On a personal note it’s quite interesting to see the journey these tracks have been on, 3 years [...]

A year ago when my phone was upgraded I remember looking at the various options including a variety of shiny touchscreen phones on the market and I just wasn’t sold to them…partly because I wanted something that would sync with my Mac but mostly because there was a lack of buttons and I was used [...]

Today’s the first day that I just haven’t known what to blog on, nothing in particular has jumped out at me and it’s been a busy today! This afternoon I taught my first lesson in South Hunsley…whilst I am not a teacher I’d been hoping for some RE opportunities and today the first of 2 [...]

Yesterday I posted this on my twitter; ‘checking out the new David Crowder album on Spotify…whilst it’s good the majority of the lyrics seem a little meaningless’ Now whilst this tweet seems negative let me clarify that I do actually quite like David Crowder as a musician however as a worship song writer he is [...]

As I mentioned yesterday part of the retreat day I was on included some silent time which was a little odd. I very rarely experience silence even now as I blog/plan a lesson I have music on in the background…the few occasions I turn off the music I hear my boiler in the background, I [...]

Today I spent the day at Wydale hall on a youth and children’s workers retreat organised by the York Diocese which was really good. The last retreat I went on was when I was in Peterborough and CROPS organised a day out in the sticks with Paul Wilcox as a retreat and reflection day and [...]

Whilst Sundays’ in lent don’t count I will still be sticking to my lent things on a Sunday so I guess that means I’ll actually end up with 40-something blog posts and whilst today’s post is edging closer to being posted on Monday I thought I’d blog…better late than never! Over the last week I’ve [...]

I’ve realised that so far I’ve failed to blog but my weekend’s been busy, had Joel and Vicki to stay Thursday and Friday and Caroline arrived this morning and this evening we’ll be out and about in Hull. However I have just enough time for a quick blog and will therefore lower the high quality [...]

Today’s post in my lent blogs is a blog I promised a while ago. Back in November I finally got around to buying a book called Amish Grace which was recommended by one of my lecturers at uni and although I started the book with excitement I slacked a little with it and eventually finished [...]

Whilst lent is meant to be a time or preparation and should be something to bring you closer to God one thing I am trying this year amongst things that achieve the former (I hope!) is avoiding supermarkets. Local Veg! I had a conversation with someone at church about farm shops last week and so [...]

Whilst this minister has set himself the challenge of visiting all 10,000 parishioners during lent and spent last year’s lent sleeping on his church roof I’m planning to do something slightly less extreme…actually 3 slightly less extreme things! Firstly from today (the beginning of lent) I shall be aiming to blog everyday during lent…some of [...]

A couple of years ago I post some stuff on the lack of lament in our worship using the picture to the left and once again in recent weeks as I’ve pondered worship and varying the music we use to worship (see this post) I’ve been thinking about the way we express our worship. Dave [...]

Long term followers of my blog will know that I’m always tweaking the theme of the blog and trying to make it more user friendly. With my previous template update back in September I began to include social networking links plus some ‘featured posts’ containing posts that I thought were more worth reading than others. [...]