The Ponderings of a Meandering Minister…
Ross 
At the encouragement of the Methodist Church in Ireland, we operated a prayer room for 24 hours on 25-26 January 2014. While the emphasis was put on helping as many people as possible to pray in a focused way during that time, rather than specifically covering every hour, only four hours went without cover – … Read moreNight and Day Prayer
In January the Methodist Church in Ireland encouraged us to consider the theme, “Covenant and Choosing” so we could take extra time on the meaning and impact of the ‘Covenant Prayer‘. The third service focused on Christ at the Centre, using Luke 10:1-12. What follows is an excerpt of the script I was working from … Read more12 Practical Tips On How To Do What Jesus Wants Us To Do
Oh my, what a moving movie is Les Misérables! We saw the London show a number of years ago – Bring Him Home had me a blubbering, inconsolable wreck on that occasion – but I don’t think I understood the story until last night. Two strands stood out for me in particular: one was the … Read moreMisery – Caught between Justice and Grace
I’ve been feeling the nudge to get back into blogging. Which I’m sure all of you avid MinisterMoo readers are very excited about. So, watch this space. I’m going to play with the layout and stuff and then might consider posting something. Soon. Perhaps.
Wow, I’ve been getting vvvery bad at blogging with any sort of regularity. I do still tweet a fair bit and if we know each other there’s facebook too, and then there are musings on bible passages at YouVersion but sitting down to share thoughts on life hasn’t happened much. Here’s a post I wrote … Read moreAll Change
It may not surprise you that, as a minister of an institution that is pleased to trace its roots back to the beginning, the recent ‘hate religion, love Jesus’ youtube phenomenon has made me a tad uncomfortable – I agree but I still love the Church with all her failures: one of the amazing things … Read moreHate Religion, Love Jesus?
We’ve been working through the Essential 100 Bible Reading Challenge over the past while, and I’ve been posting comments on those passages from time to time through my YouVersion notes. I think I’ll have a look and see if any are worthy of wider bloggage, perhaps with a few tweaks… This is the most recent, … Read moreThe Curse of the Institution
Following a number of worried posts about the new Ticker on facebook, I did a wee bit of research, I’ve distilled it down to this: If you’re concerned about the whole ‘Ticker shows people the colour of my underwear’ thing, bear this in mind – when you comment or like something on facebook, you do … Read moreFacebook’s Ticker and Privacy
The Twitterati were at work for a second year, using the #chw11 hashtag.If you don’t already follow me on Twitter you can see my username above 🙂 We’re back from another great Castlewellan Holiday Week – well, by ‘back’ I mean ‘still here’ because we stayed in our own home for the second year running. … Read moreRadical, not respectable
We’ve done our fair share of travelling with young children on a budget – why stay at home when going abroad is the same price? Each time we fly or float we discover new things that make the travelling experience that little bit more relaxed. Some we’d even call life- (or at least holiday-) savers. … Read moreTravelling with young kids – things to bring