We are at the Galley and Tavern this Sunday from 7:30pm. See you then lovely people. A few years ago a sermon I preached as part of a series on prayer ended up being the most controversial thing I’d ever done. Its subject was the word “Amen”. So, I thought, let’s give it another try 🙂. So let me start …
Hi folks, hope you are doing ok! This week we are meeting at the Tavern and Galley, 71 The Links, Whitley Bay NE26 1UE. Meeting at 7.30 for those of you who are around. This week i’m thankful that John Cooper has provided this weeks blog for us. Forgive me for a second allotment-based blog this week. I’m the type …
Here is this weeks blog! hope you enjoy it. We are meeting at the Enigma Tap on Sunday at 7:30pm see you all then. Claire and I have recently got an allotment. During half-term we started to clear it off and we had many of our neighbouring allotmenteers pop around to introduce themselves. All of them advised us to: “take …
We are looking at creativity this week and we will be meeting at the Enigma Tap at 7:30pm and everyone is welcome to come and join the conversation. Are you creative? If so, why? If not, why not? Take a moment to think and write down what you think. If you asked most people what creativity is, they’d answer making …
Hi everyone, this week we are meeting in the Enigma Tap at 7.30. Hope to see yo there. A few months ago, I had a chat with one of our BCFX family who’d had a really hard week. It got me thinking that a community like us has its benefits and downsides. And one of those downsides is that we …
Grab a coffee/ tea/ or other comforting beverage. A question to begin: When do you feel welcome? What elicits that warm, relaxed, weight removing felling? When do you feel you can be truly you? Picture the place, the people, the circumstances. …and sit with them for a little while. I can think of two places where I always feel welcome …
Matthew 2:13 “You can free the world, you can free my mind, Just as long as my baby’s safe from harm Tonight” Massive Attack – Safe from Harm (1991) If you’ve studied social science, then you may have come across Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. If not, let me explain. In 1943 Abraham Maslow proposed that human motivation goes through stages. …
Matthew 6:26-27 When Rob told me one of my ‘Advent Words’ was Content. I walked the dog and considered the meaning of it. Both content as in what’s inside, and content as in being fulfilled by what we have and do came to mind. And I was surprised that the two can often be in opposition. St. Sheryl Crowe wrote: …
Mark 3:33-35 John 19:26-27 Families are tricky things. You may think of your family and have warm fuzzies. You may not. But at this time of year we’re bombarded with images of what a “normal” family should look like – even if it’s an alternative view. I need to be honest that this reflection was the hardest for me to …
Psalm 104:24-26 Today (7th December 2022) is exactly 50 years since this photo – the Blue Marble – was taken from Apollo 17. At the time environmentalist had asked NASA to take a Hi-res image of the whole earth as they believed that when humans saw their planet in one frame it would change their attitude towards it. Previous lower …