Author: stuart

  • Last Minute Shopping

    Came across this while wwilf-ing …  http://www.youtube.com/v/TFW15m_CXo8&rel=1 www.worldvision.org 

  • the joys…

    Oh the joys of children in church. It’s the schools service today, yehay Time to frighten the little darlings with a mouse, and a story or two!! Then I came across this as I was writing something for Midnight… What’s in a story, what’s in a rhyme? Some words or a phrase? Better ask ……

  • Liverpool Nativity

    Arrived home just in time for the Liverpool Nativity at 8pm last night on BBC3, (if you missed it it is on again next sunday on BBC1) Easter 2006 saw the Manchester Passion denounced as blasphemous, yet probably did more than any other easter story-telling to interest people in that story. So was the Liverpool…

  • Advent 3

    After preaching on 'time' and commenting on the British Gas 'Hold' music, I wondered what would happen if the Church in Wales and British Gas got together! I played this at the end of the sermon – well it is refreshment sunday, as if we need a break from the frantic preparations for Christmas… Advent.mp3

  • TESCO

    Ok, it’s coming. Tesco is being built, in fact it is about half the size of Holywell itself. So… … After a quick shopping trip in Wrexham and mold – and seeing the delight on the other half’s face as we drove towards the damn store… (Wrexham has a large one two floors of retail…

  • Advent by British Gas

    I don’t suggest you phone them just to check this, I wish I had recorded it. I was sorting out sunday’s sermon at the same time as trying to convince British Gas that we exist (so I can quickly change to a green supplier!!) ‘Cheesy music’ Thanks for waiting, one of our operators will be…

  • Advent Carol Service

    This was a bit last minute, but it seemed to work. It is a bit rough, but suited the people! I used the Angel / Joseph dialogue from 'Candles and Conifers' before it… It was a long hard road to Bethlehem,We had been this way beforeThe hard and rocky groundOur feet were really sore. We…

  • Christmas begins…

    I've preached on this subject a few times now once at harvest, once in the Kingdom season, even during the summer, even to the family service in a light hearted kind of way, no adverse reactions… … So when I found an article about Christmas being too commercial and dominated by the church around one…

  • Scary thing, phone calls

    I’ve just had a call about a youthworker placement in our parish. Great, exciting, etc. However I had to remark that there really is very little in the parish for young people. Yes we have a Sunday School, and the older kids go to a group in another parish Sunday afternoons, but if I was…

  • Advent

    Well it's advent again, the readings from the lectionary this sunday are nicely obscure, just my luck it is a family service. "Watch ye, therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house cometh" Matt. 24:44.  I always remember the King James version of this because of the Film Shawshank Redemption, not that…