Have just spent an enjoyable evening with Colin at St Aldates in Oxford, a massive, successful evangelical charismatic church in the heart of the city. The evening worship included 5 Adult Baptisms by total immersion. It was slick, musically powerful and wonderfully emotive. It had an authenticity which could not be denied, and although it…
Everything In the name of the +Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen I always say that in my ministry here at St. Thomas the Apostle, we do “high church”, not “long church”, but with a title of my talk like this: “everything” you might be thinking that you might need…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db8TZQ0yzjM&rel=1 This video accompanies a lovely ritual on Remembrance Sunday where the congregation come forward and lay poppies on a cross at the front of church. It is really quite moving. Remembrance is important to this community, being so associated with the military. At least 70% of the general congregation have a service background, or…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoJfV2SBRs4&rel=1 Words by Ron Cole (thewearypilgrim.typepad.com). Music: All Saints by David Bowie. Veejo by Me. Debuted at the Chapter Midday Office. It was suggested that when we host the midday office around the deanery it reflects the charisms of our parishes, so I took bits from the Blesséd ecclessial community.
Text: Luke 19:1-10 "ZACCHAEUS was a very little man, and a very little man was he." Probably we should stop singing that rollicking chorus, for two good reasons. First, short people are not figures of fun. Secondly, Zacchaeus is not just an entertaining story for the Sunday school. We are told about Zacchaeus in his…
This is the basic script of the Blah Study Day in which I participated in London last Saturday. It is not the actualy text of what I had to say as (in my usual manner) I made a lot of stuff up on the spot (or was that the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, let's…
