Director: JJ Abrams Starring: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis and more… Reviewed by Matt Adcock (@Cleric20 on twitter) “The Force is strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. My sister has it. You have that power, too.” 30 […]
So recently I was in a nice restaurant and needed the rest room to do the male version of powder my nose. Check the moustache and beard for any out of place hairs and review the overall shape and density of the beard. (It’s a joke! Not all men have beards, some just have moustaches!) […]
For ages, we’ve tamed the Christmas story and made it nice for the kids–time to face reality. Recite this out loud: She said God made her pregnant! What was in her head? Was that what, what she said meant? There were less idiotic ways to explain her Being in the family way—it’s a no-brainer. Well, […]
I would consider myself to be a good driver. I have never taken an advanced test but I am confident I am probably at that level, are you with me on this? (Just a joke, but I am a good driver) When I passed my driving test (2nd time trying…) me and a mate would […]
So I was chatting to a mate of mine recently who is a police officer. As part of his job he has to ‘brush up’ on his PSU (Police Support Unit) training once in a while and it just happened to be this month. If I am honest, PSU training is the type of thing […]
‘What possible good reasons would God have for permitting evil?’ This is a question often voiced when an explanation of why God might allow suffering is presented. The Free Will argument goes some way to providing an explanation for why a good God might allow suffering. To add to this line of thought it’s worth thinking about the […]
In the job I now have at CVM it is difficult to hide the fact that I am a Christian, it’s sort of obvious as just about all we do is about introducing 1,000,000 men to Jesus Christ. Even before that I was pastoring a church and before that a Chaplain for a drug rehabilitation […]
The following is an extract from ‘The Ulimate Survival Guide: How to talk about God, the Bible, and stuff‘. The Problem of Evil is something that has gripped the attention of many of the brightest minds throughout history. If God loves us, cares for us, wants our best, then he wouldn’t want us to […]
Do you ever go through times of reflection looking back at what you have done or possibly not have done in the year? I recently went through one of these periods and I found myself looking at the negatives, the things I should have done but didn’t and it started to get me feeling depressed. […]
As I was chatting to a local church leader and a very good friend of mine about coming to preach in his church in a few weeks we started to joke about how he would introduce me and more specifically what title he would give me. They’re a few he could choose: Stephen McGuire – […]
