Tag Archives: healing

Opening windows – Mark 1:9-15

Posted on February 21, 2018 by

  Last Sunday was the first in Lent, and time for a change of focus towards the Easter story and all that scripture challenges us with as we explore who Jesus is and what he came to do. Many of … Continue reading →

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Being like the Elijah of the Canaanites

Posted on August 20, 2017 by

My deployment in Eversley continues – lovely to have a settled period of ministry, much as I enjoyed the peripatetic ministry of recent months. Today is 10th Sunday after Trinity and I felt the readings from Matthew 15:21-28 and Romans 11:1-2a … Continue reading →

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Prayers for #Remembrance Day based around a sonnet by Malcolm Guite

Posted on November 11, 2016 by

I have been asked to do the prayers for the Remembrance Day service in one church of the parish in which I have recently started a two month placement. In an effort to both step away from standard forms of … Continue reading →

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Are we like Legion? Luke 8:26-39

Posted on June 19, 2016 by

Today was my first Sunday covering services the North Hampshire Downs Benefice, and specifically a Family Communion service in the parish of Upton Grey. I really should have photographed the glorious view from the church porch (complete with circling Red … Continue reading →

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Luke 4:14-21 Fasten your eyes on Jesus

Posted on January 24, 2016 by

“The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on Jesus.” It was 1981. We were on holiday & my Dad was buying ice-cream at a rather nice village shop at the back gates to Balmoral. As we waited, a … Continue reading →

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Does loneliness still cause the greatest pain to ‘The Wounded Healer’?

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

I’ve just finished reading Henri Nouwen‘s ‘The Wounded Healer’ (in an updated form of the 1972 original) as part of background reading for my ‘Pastoral Care’ module. Throughout this little classic, Nouwen identifies closely with the suffering and particularly loneliness … Continue reading →

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