STOP EATING FROM THE DEVIL’S TABLE! New blog from CVM’s Northern Director Gasky.
Tag: Jesus
There comes a time when stepping out from what may seem a relatively small world becomes something of a challenge; a moving on, a passage of rites, a personal extension that brings a larger world view. This truism is often shaped when we start thinking about owning a car. To be successful in broadening our […]
Don’t know about you, but feeling like our moral compass is all over the place in these uncertain days ……….. Just off the mobile phone to a friend who has just lost his job, he was with his company for 14 years in a senior position. The way they paid him off was so impersonal; […]
Back in the day I had two momentous things happen to me. Firstly I passed my driving test, secondly I became a Christian. Both these things happened within a short space of time of one another. Being young and naïve aged 17, I combined both of these events. I was as really into my new […]
I realise that this is going to be a very contentious subject as a CVM blog with fruit in the title – but it’s a manly fruit as it has thorns! So here is a definition of the noun Gooseberry: To be an unwanted third person who is present when two other people especially two people having a romantic […]
Most days during lockdown, my wife and I have made time to pray for our family and for one another. Before lockdown, our family life was hectic! driving here and there with the younger children, who were doing boxing and football, so taking them to training and matches. Love that the kids enjoy what they […]
It was the 4th of March, and I was working at school. Some teachers started to talk about a possible closing of the schools, some said that it wouldn’t be possible, that last time the school closed was during the second world war. We left school at 2pm, later that afternoon our prime minister said that […]
Each year, when I was a child, we were taken to an ‘open day’ at the Steelworks where my Dad worked, it was a really enjoyable family day out with rides and other entertainment. Consequently, for me, the words ‘Open Day’ became synonymous with such a fun event. However, on a hot summer Saturday in […]
I take our dog for regular walks in the surrounding countryside. However, walks over one particular week recently proved something of a challenge, but nothing to do with the restrictions in place due to the pandemic. No, the main difficulty is in my footwear. I have managed to acquire a stone in one of my […]
‘You play good cop and I will play bad cop, hopefully we can drag a confession out of this guy.’ There are probably many, many scenario’s, in many films where the ‘good guy – bad guy’ scene has been played out. It fits a basic construct, cowboys and indians, cops and robbers, good against evil, […]