Backward Mutters

  • A Dickens of an Evening

    My wife wrote the following poem after our family visited the NC Shakespeare Festival’s A Christmas Carol. She also drew the sketch to the right. She blogs and posts here work on her own blog drawn2life. You can see more of her work here. A Dickens Eve A gentle waterfall…

  • Gaudete Sunday

    Today is Gaudete Sunday. During this Advent Sunday’s readings is the scripture from Philippians 4:4 “Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again, Rejoice!” In it we remember the message of the Angel of the Lord and the Heavenly Host as they announcement to coming of the Messiah,…

  • Are We in a Grave Story?

    A series of events conspired which led me to reflect on how we view the meaning of our circumstances. Firstly, my eldest had to do a report on Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing. In turn we watched the Kenneth Branagh screen adaptation. As she and I discussed the play and…

  • Genesis 29:13-35 Sermon Presentaton

    Here’s the slideshow from Sunday’s sermon, “Then the Lord Saw”.

  • The sovereign Stick up Artist

    A quote sent from a friend… “The evangelical church, or at least a good slice of it, is nervous, twitchy, and touchy about consumer desire, ready to change in a nanosecond at the slightest hint that tastes and interests have changed. Why? Because consumer appetite reigns. And consumer appetite and…