Massacres in Nigeria

Posted by Hugh on Mar 9, 2010 in Church | 0 comments

This week, hundreds of men, women and children were butchered in Nigeria, for being Christians, by Muslims. Islam = Religion of Peace? PRAY for Christians in Nigeria.

Archbishop Ben Kwashi said:

“It was not a good sight at all. The villagers had no chance whatsoever. They were slaughtered. I could see machete wounds in the necks of children. Kids from age zero to teenagers, all butchered from the back, macheted in their necks, their heads. Deep cuts in the mouths of babies. The stench. People wailing and crying. Some have lost their voices. I could not stand it. From what I saw from a distance, it was over 100 killed in one village. I don’t know what sparked it off. I thought we were making headway after the previous crisis in January.”

Ruth Gledhill – The Times

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On Leadership / Ordination

Posted by Hugh on Jan 12, 2010 in Church, Grace | 0 comments

Bishop Alf Stanway speaking to prospective ordinands…

“If other people knew you the way God knows you – your failings; your thoughts; your sins – what secretly goes on in your mind that no-one else knows about; would they trust you with the kind of work that God trusts you with? God has supreme confidence in His Grace. He’ll take the likes of you and me and Paul and give you the privilege of being His saints and fellow workers.”

The Power of Words

Posted by Hugh on Dec 22, 2009 in Church, Sermons/Talks | 1 comment

We’re preaching through Proverbs at church… we did 1-9 expositionally and now we’re doing the rest thematically. I got to kick this off with the theme of Words. Most of the thinking is gleaned from Tim Keller… he’s pretty helpful.

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Curry Night Jokes

Posted by Hugh on Dec 3, 2009 in Church, Sermons/Talks | 1 comment

Last night I spoke at an evangelistic curry night for our church 20s group… it’s always good to get rid of the awkwardness of doing a talk in a restaurant… a good way to do this is with a joke… here are my best three curry night jokes (courtesy of my friends Martin and Simon):

Joke 1:

So I had the Chicken Tarka tonight… it’s a new dish, similar to the Chicken Tikka, but a little ‘otter

Joke 2:

I phoned up here last night… I said do you de-liver… they said no, just chicken and lamb

Joke 3:

The waiter came over, said “Curry – oke”? I said not tonight, don’t fancy singing!

Woolie 3 – Being an AL

Posted by Hugh on Aug 17, 2009 in Church | 0 comments

I got back today from Woolhampton 3 after a long week of washing up! I was part of a two-man, one-woman team heading up a team of Assistant Leaders. AL’s help a camp like Woolie to run smoothly – we do jobs like washing up, cleaning, running games, moving stuff around, so that the main leaders can focus on building friendships with the members and sharing Jesus with them.

Was great to be part of this team, to make friends, to serve, to teach, to learn, to be encouraged. I’ll post some more stuff in due course about what I was teaching – a seminar session on the Emerging Church…

Here’s what the ALs get up to in their spare time… Kitchen Stomp!

The observant among you will notice my absense – I was choreographer!

Ruth Gledhill on Woolie

Posted by Hugh on Aug 12, 2009 in Church | 0 comments

Ruth Gledhill

I’m currently on a Pathfinder camp at a place called Woolhampton… this is Woolie 3.

Myself and Povey are helping to lead the Assistant Leader team… basically the student age ish helpers who do the washing up. We do a lot of the teaching slots for them…  going through Colossians… Resurrection… Idolatry… Heaven & Hell, Suffering, Islam, Bible, Emerging Church, Atheists…  all fun.

Please pray for the camp… it’s going well – I’m speaking to the whole camp from Colossians 3 on Friday night.

Anyway… you ma have seen Ruth Gledhill’s article in The Times on Christian and Atheist camps – for her report she popped along to Woolie 1 and loved it….  see here.