Life of Wiley

Urgh, this is awful! I’m sure people who have this stuff are well meaning, but c’mon, this is just tacky.

For the first time since Eva was born we all attended church. Our friend Alison was the preacher for the morning service which was celebrating Pentecost. During the service Alison used a very powerful mechanism for getting the point across about the Spirit speaking to all present at Pentecost, she had the lesson read not [...]

I’m preaching tomorrow morning for the first time in ages. With all the swaps I’ve done with other preachers in the circuit I’ve not preached since the third Sunday in Advent. It’s a pain when this happens because it takes me longer to “warm up” to it, so it seems harder for me to put [...]

BBC NEWS | Christian question alarms flight When I first read the above article I thought, “what a nutter”, and then I started to think about whether there are boundaries to extolling a faith onto others. As a Christian and a preacher in the Methodist Church I am called to “those who have not heard”, [...]

Wesley Would Blog Whoa, this came as a bit of a surprise this morning. There I was minding my own business catching up the few blogs I read when I discovered I’ve been put in print again. This time in The Methodist Recorder. Great article by Rev. Richard Hall who writes in The Connexion, particularly [...]

Today was Trinity’s Covenant service. Will’s message was based on the reading from Deuteronomy 29:10-15 and emphasised the community aspect of the covenant. The words of the service make it an individualistic event, but Will stressed that although we make our own promises to God, we are doing it together in a spirit of togetherness. [...]

Hmm, well first post in the church category and it’s to announce that I will be taking a 2 year sabbatical from May to devote my time to bringing up our young family. We’re expecting our second child in May and I think we’ll have our hands full!