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A Deacon in the Church of God. Licensed to preach the Gospel. Sermons, book reviews, Bible studies and random happenings from his life.

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• Welcoming the Stranger

  Posted on Sunday June 1st, 2008 at 11:19 in Church, food and drink, jesus, mission, shops

  Last week I was in the Tesco Lisburn store getting in some groceries. A regular part of the routine. Mum always complains when things are moved around the store, as she then forgets some essentials, n...

• Gone to Galway

  Posted on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 10:00 in Church, Ireland, synod

  By the time this is published, thanks to Blogger's new time-delay function, I shall hopefully be on my way to Galway. It's time for the Church of Ireland General Synod, and this is the last session of...

• Weekending

  Posted on Sunday February 24th, 2008 at 11:22 in Church, ddyc, Driving, youth

  Just a very quick post I'm not long home to Dromore from the Down and Dromore Youth Council Confirmation weekend in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh. As usual, we were joined by friends from YKEA - pronoun...

• A Matter of Life and Death

  Posted on Tuesday February 5th, 2008 at 14:56 in Church, College, dublin

  Today has been a strange sort of day. Death has been hovering in and around everything I've been doing. This morning I was at a funeral in Dublin, then went for lunch with John and Carmen and did a bi...

• Church of Ireland Flickr

  Posted on Tuesday February 5th, 2008 at 03:44 in Church

  Just a quick post to say that I've set up a new group on Flickr for Church of Ireland photos. So if you have any photos of cathedrals, parish churches or other associated delights, then join up and ad...

• Seeing or not?

  Posted on Sunday February 3rd, 2008 at 09:23 in Bible, Bible Study, Church, jesus, Luke

  This morning at church, the Gospel reading was from Luke 2:22-40. Recently Dromore started using the TNIV (Today's New International Version), but I had my pocket ESV (English Standard Version) with m...

• "Excuse me, you're sitting in my seat!"

  Posted on Tuesday January 22nd, 2008 at 08:25 in anglican, Church, College, Ireland

  I'm working on my Anglicanism essay on the 1870 Preamble and Declaration of the General Convention of the Church of Ireland. To help in this, I've been reading through the Journal of the General Conve...

• Preparation and Protestants

  Posted on Wednesday January 16th, 2008 at 16:18 in Church, College, curacy list, protestant

  It never really stops in college. It's the night before the first of the interview in the Curacy appointments process, and I've been sitting researching an essay, for the most part. The essay is for A...

• The Power of Story

  Posted on Tuesday November 6th, 2007 at 16:32 in Church, gospel, youth

• Neglect

  Posted on Sunday November 4th, 2007 at 11:45 in Church, College, Driving, essays, mission

• Back to School

  Posted on Monday October 22nd, 2007 at 16:35 in Church, harvest, sermons

• Student Reader

  Posted on Sunday September 30th, 2007 at 11:05 in Church, placement, prayer

• A House of Prayer or a Den of Robbers?

  Posted on Sunday September 16th, 2007 at 07:40 in Church, evangelism, Mark, mission, scotland

• Reflecting on the trip

  Posted on Sunday September 2nd, 2007 at 17:59 in Church, mission, romania

• The Radical Reformission - book review

  Posted on Monday August 6th, 2007 at 15:33 in Church, gospel, ministry, mission, reading

• Holy Trinity, Dromore

  Posted on Sunday August 5th, 2007 at 15:37 in 1 samuel, Church, Driving, preaching

• Kilhorne completed

  Posted on Tuesday July 31st, 2007 at 16:19 in Church, ministry, preaching, youth

• Things they don't teach you in college #5629

  Posted on Monday July 23rd, 2007 at 17:08 in Church, ministry, youth

• Bumper Ordination

  Posted on Sunday June 24th, 2007 at 17:17 in Church, ministry, ordinations

• And now the sports report

  Posted on Wednesday June 20th, 2007 at 16:50 in Church

• No rest for the wicked

  Posted on Monday June 4th, 2007 at 09:04 in Church, College, Driving, scotland

• Occupational Hazards

  Posted on Monday May 28th, 2007 at 12:46 in Church, ministry, preaching, sermons

• Radio Silence

  Posted on Monday May 7th, 2007 at 17:52 in Church