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Christmas rush

December 23, 2011

At this stage many of us are still panicking about things we need to get down work-wise before the Christmas break, let alone the things around the house. For me, I am so grateful to God for my wife who takes so much pressure away from me at this time of the year! But, in [...]

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An Old Poem on the paradox of so-called “freedom”

November 14, 2011

When I was younger I used to write poems. I can’t remember the last time that I wrote one. I found this when doing some clearing up yesterday at home. I have to try and tidy the room that has doubled as a family “den” and my study so that we can get my son [...]

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Why did you turn into wine? George Warnock sings “There’s no one like you”!

September 25, 2011

This is the cutest video I have seen for a long while, even if I am a bit biased!

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Eight ways parents can make sure they are not too controlling and over-protective

September 15, 2011

Josh Harris posted a very interesting article written by and for home school parents. It is highly relevant for all of us. I am not a homeschooler, though we did toy with the idea when the children were younger. I will never forget a conversation with Mike Hewett who urged me to think about whether [...]

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Risk, adventure, and opportunity vs safety, familiarity, and stability

September 9, 2011

Today I don’t have much for you really…just this. I am musing about how it is that different people faced with the same choice will react so differently. Some people have a clear tendency towards risk, adventure, and opportunity while others tend instead towards safety, familiarity, and stability. Still others are more unpredictable. Which are [...]

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Is McDonalds Gagging Christians?

July 8, 2011

I am here in McDonalds using their excellent free WiFi while waiting to pick up my daughter from her small group. Imagine my surprise to notice no adverts on my site or any other site that uses the great Beacon Adverts service. I tried visiting the site to see if there was anything wrong. What [...]

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Senna – a movie you should see with your son

June 10, 2011

I wanted to write about what was the best evening I have spent for a while. After work yesterday I rushed with Henry to catch a guitar shop which stayed open late. I bought him a Baby Taylor 3/4 acoustic guitar. It is a lovely instrument that brought back memories of my pre-marriage passion for [...]

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Hoping that life begins at Forty!

April 5, 2011

As you read this I should be spending the first few hours of my fortieth birthday flying towards home. I hope to be with my family just before the kids all go to school and then have a BIG Birthday fry-up breakfast with my wife! What extra joy to be arriving home on the morning [...]

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A start of a new era of fitness and wellbeing?

March 3, 2011

It will surprise many of you to know I have joined a gym. I even went there today. I exercised for the grand total of 16 minutes. This may well not sound very impressive, but for me with my sedentary job and sedentary writing hobby it IS a big deal! It’s probably psychological but I [...]

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Farewell, thank you to Annette Harrison, and an intern opportunity

February 13, 2011

Many of you will not know who Annette Harrison is. She may never publish a book nor start a blog of her own. But for four years she tirelessly worked behind the scenes on this blog and on my book. She would edit, and sometimes re-edit many times over my early writings. I am in [...]

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A year on, and a return to the other country

January 13, 2011

I have had the pleasure of traveling fairly widely thanks to my job. I travel so often, and at times for such short periods, that I don’t always mention on the blog when I am away. But there is one country that I tend to look forward to visiting more than almost any other. I [...]

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Top 100 posts from this site

December 22, 2010

As I leave you for a well earned and very necessary blogging break, it is my custom to share with you a list of the most visited pages from all time, judged by the number of views received in the past 12 months. It is encouraging to me to see that there is a good [...]

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Review of 2010 part 2

December 21, 2010

Today, I will conclude my review of 2010′s blogging. At the begining of June I shared notes from a sermon I preached, A People on a Mission. I also began some work on a planned online study guide for Raised With Christ.  This included video footage and questions for people to consider or discuss in [...]

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A review of 2010 part 1

December 20, 2010

The year began for me in Enfield Cineworld where I would of course spend most Sunday mornings, and many other meetings during the year. I love being rooted in Jubilee Church, it helps keep me sane! Tope’s sermon on prayer, and the prayer of blessing which began it helped set the tone for what would [...]

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“Jesus was dead what’s your excuse?” Guest Post from Mrs Warnock

November 29, 2010

When reading the story of the resurrection in the gospel of John, my friends and I (all ladies) noticed a small detail which showed yet another way in which Jesus is our ultimate example.  Jesus, having been crucified, spent three days dead in the tomb, was resurrected, and did not think twice about neatly folding [...]

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The value of being alone

November 11, 2010

Today I did something I rarely do. I commuted. Working from home as I usually do, my daily travel often involves merely walking from my bedroom to the spare room we use as my office. From the moment I wake up, my head is usually full of emails I need to answer, phone calls I [...]

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Family Safari

November 9, 2010

At some point soon I will post about my trip to Africa. But, today I wanted to just share this fantastic video my wife made of our Saturday trip to a UK Safari Park. Obviously not as great as the real African thing I saw, but still when I got home I wanted to share [...]

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My 4,000th blog post

October 13, 2010

In April 2003 I began an adventure that I had no idea would last this long, or have so much impact on my life. Thanks to blogging I have met friends like Andrew Fountain, I have travelled to churches and conferences in America, interviewed many modern heroes of the faith, had a book published, and [...]

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Bringing warmth to a fathers heart

October 5, 2010

One of my children came downstairs, after being in their room for ages yesterday, with the following list of verses. They had obviously spent a long time going thru a bible looking at highlighted verses and choosing, as they put it, their “favorite ones”. I think its a pretty good list, actually, and I am [...]

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10 Things I learnt on my summer “break”

September 1, 2010

Following just over a month of this self-imposed near-total break from my online life (obviously not including my paid work!) what have I discovered? WordPress’s auto-publish feature is bullet-proof and a real gift You hardly missed me as a result of 1. and my kind guest bloggers. Indeed, traffic remained pretty high considering it was August. Phil [...]

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