Irene Walker (1919 – 2011) Wycliffe short termer for 14 years

Irene Walker’s Thanksgiving Service | Hamilton Road Baptist Church, Bangor | Tuesday 18 October 2011 I was asked to give a summary of Irene’s years with Wycliffe: here is an edited version. We are told that people today will typically have at least four careers. This is contrasted with previous generations who tended to have [...]

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“One of the world’s top 100 major influencers” Time 2005

John Stott in 2006. He has been described as ‘a renaissance man with a reformation theology’. Photograph: Kieran Dodds Though the name of the Rev John Stott, who has died at the age of 90, rarely appeared in the UK national press, in April 2005 Time Magazine placed him among the world’s top 100 major influencers. [...]

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Rev Dr John R W Stott 27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011

I heard this morning that John Stott died yesterday. A few minutes ago I found his memorial website which is a great source of information about John Stott’s life and details of upcoming memorial services. John Stott’s successor as International Director of Langham Partnership International, Chris Wright, has written the following message on the website. [...]

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N. Ireland: the golfing capital of the world..?

I met a man in a chip shop on Sunday evening who told me he hadn’t eaten all day because he couldn’t tear himself away from the TV watching Darren Clarke winning the Open Championship. The N. Ireland press and media has understandably been very excited  about the tremendous success of N. Irish golfers in [...]

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What makes a blog post popular?

On 26 April 2010, I wrote this: Of the 110+ posts on this blog, why should Retro-Blog:John in Ndop 7 – A Tale of Five Chiggers seem to attract so much attention? It was posted in early September 2009, but dates from my trip to Cameroon last February; it does have some elegant photos of [...]

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Reading the Bible out loud

Recently I got a new laptop and it’s great. But there are a few teething problems… like I’ve forgotten some passwords and can’t get into my TweetDeck… which is where I normally keep in touch with some interesting blogs – like PreachersA-Z! Although TweetDeck is still playing hard to get, I caught up with Richard [...]

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How to fix the UK economy No3

Dear Mr. Cameron, Please find below our third and final (for now at least) suggestion for fixing the UK’s economy. I should add, Mr Cameron, that I am slightly apprehensive that some of my readers are equating these ideas with some of your current policies eg the NHS and weekly bin collections and thinking that I, [...]

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How to fix the UK economy No2

Dear Mr. Cameron, Please find below our second suggestion for fixing the UK’s economy. Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they’d receive money instead [...]

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How to fix the UK economy No1

Dear Mr. Cameron, Please find below our suggestion for fixing the UK’s economy. Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan: You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan: There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force. [...]

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GodActs: Jonah did it; Jewish Christians did it; don’t we all?

God, I hate those Ninevites and I just knew you would forgive them! What do you think you’re doing rubbing shoulders with that crowd, eating what is prohibited and ruining our good name? But they are different from us; they wouldn’t fit in our church GodActs Day 11: The Gospel spreads – even to the [...]

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