I spent a few days away at a monastery in Perth for a conference with the theme, ‘Ascending to the Higher Places’ at the end of January. Outside my bedroom window, over the wall of the car park, I could see a small private graveyard, within the grounds. During some...

A few issues arose over posting up the blog from our minister in the New Year. This issues are now fixed, so here is Mike’s musings from January HAPPY NEW YEAR! We closed off our worship in 2018 hearing from some of the congregation, listening to their high points and...

Have you watched Toy Story or any of the sequels perhaps with your children or grandchildren? I am so excited that the final instalment of the film series ‘Toy Story 4’ is due for release in summer 2019. It will give me reason to watch the previous three films and...

Truth What is truth? Today in society it might be a little difficult to pin down what is true and what is not, because it seems to be a pretty slippery thing. What was true yesterday may no be so today. Often as history is examined under the lens of...

Did any of you see the program ‘Meet the Drug Lords: Inside the Real Narcos’ presented by the ex-SAS serviceman Jason Fox that was on Channel 4 recently? In it ‘Foxy’ visited the areas of production and trafficking of drugs, mainly cocaine, and saw the cartels and the police in...

I have been thinking a lot about, and dealing with loss as the pastor of GMC. We have recently lost one of our members to cancer, a disease that must surely affect everyone in society as some level. We all surely know someone who has suffered from, beaten or succumbed...

Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (USA) preached at the recent wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the newly titled Duke and Duchess of Sussex. In doing so he may well have spoke into many homes and lives of those who profess no faith or no Christian...

One definition of toleration is “the acceptance of an action, object, or person which one dislikes or disagrees with, where one is in a position to disallow it but chooses not to”1. As we move  hopefully and eventually into spring, and each day takes us closer to the Brexit, with...

So Declan Donnelly has managed it – he presented, the last show recorded at ITV’s London Studios, without his 29 year on-screen partner Ant McPartlin. By all accounts it was an emotional affair and according to onlookers he ‘looked nervous to start with’ and his ‘relief afterwards was telling’. But...

LENT—is the 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday (the day after ‘pancake day’) through to Easter observed by many in the Christian faith across denominations as a time of preparation for the celebration of the Easter morning. Lent is also the past tense of lend, which is to give use of...