Tending the Flame
Slides for the Lichfield Diocese Clergy Conference sessions ‘Tending the Flame’ Click Here to download or view the presentation sides You can submit your feedback from your groups regarding the ‘Going Deeper’ session here
Ministry Development
The Prayer Life of a Priest: Juggling Prayer and Action
You can download the handouts from this event for the Curates of the Hereford Diocese here: The opening exercise: Considering my praying Eugene Peterson’s critique on the nature of pastoral ministry in the US: Quote from Working the Angles Handout with the points from Henri Nouwen’s ‘In the Name of Jesus’, Five approaches to prayer in ministry, […]
Discerning God’s Invitation in a New Landscape
27th of February 2021 10.00 – 12.30 on zoom Led by Nick Helm for Rochester Canterbury Diocese Spirituality Networks How do we recognise where God’s invitation to us is in life when there are many possibilities / options and challenges? It can be really tricky to sift the options and find some clarity. In this session […]
Wheat, Weeds and Ministry
Bible Study & Reflection: Being Unfinished: Matthew 13.24-30 The parable of the wheat and the tares Intro This was developed as part of the final reflections for the Developing Ministry programme run by the West Midlands CMD consortium. The aim being to provide some biblical wisdom for the ongoing ministry beyond the framework of the […]
Jesus the pray-er
I recently gave some time to looking through the gospels at Jesus praying. Not his teaching about prayer, but rather how they show him praying. The context, the nature, the audience (if there was one) etc. And fascinating it was. Particularly in the way it showed how much of him as a prayer there is in […]
Some powerful quotes on ministry
Some powerful quotes on ministry For me August is set aside as a kind of sabbatical month. I’ve been using some of the time to try and bring some order to the myriad of papers and electronic documents that I have collected over 30+ years of ordained life. No small task, and one I’ve been […]
Getting through or living through?
As we live through what might be the tail end of a middle stage of lockdown, there is an opportunity to ponder what has been learned, what challenges have been risen to for the better, what realties still need to be faced I was told by a directee last week that I’d asked a really […]
Discerning Listening
Thursday 6th February 2020: The final day of the six day course ‘Discerning Listening’ with a great group who have engaged well and run with it. The team of Steven Baggs, Nicky Seabright and I have really enjoyed working with the group. This is a really bare bones programme that has whittled down the concept […]
Worcester Diocese Curates
January 25, 2020: Contemporary Spirituality Preparing for three sessions on the Worcester Diocese Curates weekend residential. Three Sessions: Slides – coming soon! Spirituality in 4-D Understanding Spirituality Mapping Approaches to Prayer – Mapping Spiritualities The Journey of Prayer – Handout – Teresa of Avila My Journey Considering my praying Nurturing Spirituality Teaching Prayer Resources
Vision 4 Action
I’ve been running this programme with Helen Guinness of 4×4 Consulting for several years for clergy in the Hereford Diocese. We come today to the final session of the current programme. Its always a privilege to work alongside parish clergy to develop further in ministry. In passing we quoted Eugene Peterson, and his preface to […]