A few weeks ago, someone from AMIRI, the company building the extensions at the MBC, was commenting that up to that point all the building works have been below ground, but in the next few weeks we will see the building, quite literally ‘shoot up’. Following this conversation, I felt […]
That’s impossible! How did that happen? I don’t believe it! A chance in a million! All phrases that too easily fall from our lips as we read of an incredible escape from disaster, witness an amazing goal on TV or hear of someone winning the lottery. I never cease to […]
“You wouldn’t do that if Terry Virgo was here!” is a phrase Annie has said to me many,many times over the years, invariably as a response to something I have just said or done. Usually it is accompanied by a wry smile… Why Terry Virgo? Annie knows that he is […]
The phrase ‘walking on the sunny side of the street’ came to mind recently whilst I was praying. This phrase conjures up a picture where one side of the street is in shadows and the other sunshine. It suggests that it is possible to walk in the right direction, but […]
One autumn weekend, whilst walking near a horse chestnut tree, I noticed the ground strewn with conkers. It reminded me of being in my early teens hunting for conkers. The only ones I could find were usually still on the tree way out of reach. It was a dangerous place […]
I still remember the ‘blast off’ moments when my teenage daughter would roll her eyes at something I said. Very quickly I would find myself going into orbit with Annie saying, “Steve, please calm down…” Clearly I could have done with hearing Steve Biddulph’s wisdom about ‘Raising Girls’! It is […]
You may have heard me recounting the story of how my wife, Annie, got lost driving to north London to visit her sister. A simple journey went badly wrong when she turned left instead of right off the M25. By the time she realised she was on her way towards […]
It wasn’t so long ago that 3-D films were just another crazy idea. Now we take them for granted! Some of us still remember the shock the first time we put on 3-D glasses watching a film in the cinema. Suddenly everything was much closer and more real. If putting […]
If you are like me and love ‘The Lord of the Rings’ films you can all too easily get drawn into a make believe world. However last summer, Annie and I had the opportunity to experience first-hand what it would be like to live in the world of a Hobbit! […]
God is passionate about this world and the people he created. As the Psalmist says, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it….” (Psalm 24:1). At the start of 2015 we will be gathering together as a church to seek God […]