Every year, the Sefton North clergy go away together for a night, and it's become a little tradition that I write a few thoughts about it. Here we go! By my reckoning, this was my fifth time away with the clergy at Whalley Abbey up near Blackburn. We went in March 2020, and they literally [...]
... of course, all marriages in the Bible are neat, uncomplicated and perfect... Hold your horses! Here is the book of the Bible where God asks a righteous, God-fearing man to go and marry a prostitute. And then she runs away and he has to go and get her back from whatever she's been doing. [...]
The books are getting shorter again, so I'm blogging more often! Welcome to Daniel, of The Lion's Den fame. Daniel: book of crazy names, crazy courage and crazy faith. I do love the crazy names. Try and get your tongue around this lot! Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. I think this is a [...]
Well there's such a lot going on here, isn't there? Bones, hearts, a new temple, food cooked over burning poo, much prophecy and a whole lot of 'Son of Man.' At one point over the past week, I was expressing what I slog I was finding Ezekiel. Nathan responded by saying how much he loves [...]
Rev Poppy 