Preaching with a purpose

Tomorrow I'm off to Torquay for the weekend with other folks from my circuit.I'm sure we will have a good time. I'm looking forward to a break from the PC, much as I love it.I will tell you all about the week end when I get back. Before I forget my latest assignment for section B of Faith and Worship gained a mark of 65 from my tutor. That is much more encouraging. Now here is a link to see some of God's wonderful creation this Autumn. The Devon lane in early Autumn

On Squidoo I have written several Bible stories. If you want to get a quick idea of one of these interesting Bible people take a look at my lens. I give a link below. If you click on my photo you can then navigate to my other lenses. This one is about Rahab, there are others about Esther, Naaman, Ruth and Mary Magdalene. Feel free to use these Bible stories wherever you can. Interesting Bible People Rahab

It's certainly time I posted here again. So what have I been doing? Well I've completed more than 50 lenses on Squidoo and become a Giant Squid. After that I went on holiday. Also I had a disagreement with my Faith and worship tutor because he gave me a low mark. Our problem is that he is a first time tutor so neither of us really knew if he was marking correctly or not. However an experienced tutor took a look at my work and backed up the tutor, so I had to humble myself and re-do it. My problem is more essay technique than lack of knowledge. the original mark was 42 now it is 54. I am quite content with that and hoping for better things in future as I pick up the essay technique of answering what the question asks. I have taken an all-age service since my last post and enjoyed it very much and it has been a great help with Faith and worship as this was the topic of the unit 8 assignment.I am now beginning to prepare for a Remembrance Day service, first of all askin...

We all have friends and from time to time they need our support. This is one of the most important things we can do, to bear one another's burdens. Of course our turn will come to need the support. Accepting help is not easy for some people, when they have spent their lives being the strong, resourceful one. Allowing others to help us is important as it brings a blessing to the helper. It is a form of humility to accept help. So when after spending a busy life helping others you come down to earth with a bump, be gracious and accept the help offered with gratitude.

I've been married twice and divorced twice. I'm not proud of it and yet neither am I ashamed. It is just the road life has taken me along. I was brought up in a strictly christian home where the thought of divorce was something to be avoided at all costs. My father was a difficult man (what man isn't) his was because of mental health problems and my mother did in fact talk about divorce but, I think, not seriously. I certainly intended to stay married to my first husband come what may and succeeded for 28 years. I will not go into the details of what happened but I married another man and after 8 years found this impossible to live with. Being a caring person I now have two men to worry about. However I feel I now have a huge advantage as a preacher in that I can relate to today's people and understand some of their problems and as I have experienced the Lord's forgiveness in my life, I can assure others that they too can receive this forgiveness.There is no l...

On squidoo I have posted a lens, as we call it, of my experiences in training to be a local preacher in the Methodist church. I would like it and my lenses about Interesting Bible People to be useful to as many people as possible. Also many of my poems may be useful in a service and I am quite happy for any preacher to use them like this. Below is one link. If you click on my photo on that lens this should lead you to a list of all my lenses which you can then click on to navigate my site. How to become a local preacher in the Methodist church

This is the address for my Poems of Loss. I have written about folks losing their Grandchild; an elderly lady losing her husband; my loss of a little friend when I was three and the loss of a marriage. I would like the poems to help others going through bereavement. My faith in Jesus does not make me come up with any slick answers to these events. We all have to find our own answers in our own way.I grieve through my poetry as I am not a person who finds it easy to cry. Here is another address for my poem about losing a lifelong friend earlier this year. http://www.squidoo.com/lastingfriendship . If you find it hard to cry perhaps you should try poetry too. http://www.squidoo.com/poemsofloss