Nigel Wright

A Creator God

A great day was had by all in the Wright household as some wonderful spring weather allowed outdoor activities the upper hand.

The sheep seemed impressed too...

The view in the picture is from the bottom of our garden  as the sun set, and as you can probably imagine we find God's creation a strong focus in our spiritual lives.

Our responsibility for this creation is something I muse over a lot...

Missional life

The following is unashamedly lifted from the Prodigal Kiwi's blog (which is in turn taken from Phil McRedden):

"A missional church is a community of God’s people who live into the imagination that they are, by their very nature, God’s missionary people living as a demonstration of what God plans to do in and for all of creation in Jesus Christ.”

Many of us on the course want to integrate our working life with our (future) parish priest life (and this is sort of related to the previous post) because there is a belief that we should be combining the two and living out our ordained life in our every day communities within the workplace...

Training the hard way?!

Training for ordination via a non-residential course has interesting reactions not least the attitude from many that it is part-time, not proper training, substandard and so on…

Communicating Yaconelli style

Messy Spirituality by Michael Yaconelli is a book that has a base honesty that is striking and powerful. Not all of it sits comfortably but then that is the point - God is in the day to day nitty gritty - God's grace is not definable, we can't put it in a box, there is no magic formula!

Last weeks residential on communicating the gospel got me thinking about what sort of books/literature etc I would give to" searching" family and friends. Well in the past I have given copies of Oriel's diary and this has always gone down well.

"A fictionalized retelling of the life of Jesus, based closely on Luke's Gospel, as told from the perspective of one of the angelic host, the archangel Oriel. The diary opens with Boss giving the go-ahead for the plan of salvation - Gabriel is about to appear to Mary to announce the birth of Jesus." As per Amazon.

But I would happily add Messy Spirituality to my list too... more on Oriel's stories...

Communicating the Gospel

Back to the "real" world!

The Easter residential was extremly powerful with the subject matter being the Communication of the Gospel. An inspiring week...

And thanks to all involved and the incredible speakers that attended.

I always find getting back into mainstream life quite difficult after living in community for a length of time with emotions all over the place as the joys of being re-united with family become overtaken with the day to day tasks of life and so I try and focus and mediate on...

Easter Greetings

With hope and prayers for peaceful and powerful Easter celebrations.

........I am heading off to our annual Easter School residential and will return to blogging on the 24th  of April. 

Spring Harvest Update

Well the six days flew... A Spring Harvest week is six days if you include the day of arrival and the day of departure (which both have half a day of programme), so really it is only five!

We weren't disappointed!

Jo and I attended something called The Edge which is a sort of emerging church look (new in this format to Spring Harvest) at the main teachings, fantastically run by Andy Flannagan (Musician, Youth for Christ) and Jill Rowe (Oasis Trust). The teaching across the board (picking up from our other group members who went to other "streams") was incredibly well balanced and powerful. No fundamentalist approach here but solid, theologically sound teaching. Steve Chalke produced the master study guide which...

Off to Spring Harvest!!

We are going to Spring Harvest today - and for all those who think Spring Harvest is just an Evangelical furor - it has moved with the times!

It is a chance to spend time in a safe environment, to disengage from the daily duties and focus on God and each other. The Celtic sessions are a particular favourite with us, together with the children's worship, a chance to engage in worship with our two toddlers in a worship environment that they can fully engage with.

However, I think it is going to a challenge...

E-prayer

I have added a new type list category with the title prayer time (2nd list on the right of the page).  The links take you directly to the appropriate prayers for the day and for all those who love common worship daily prayer but don't like finding the appropriate readings etc you will like the daily prayers links, the sessions prayers are complete with psalms, readings, canticles etc.

I am hoping to find time after Easter to get the pod cast up and running and then I will provide some links to audio prayer (try the link for pray-as-you-go).

Faith in the workplace

Some one commented to me recently that I hadn't actually put any thing on the blog about one of my biggest passions, faith in the workplace. There are many reasons why I feel so passionately about it, and I hope to share some of those things in the future, however, for now...