Sermons
Your wealth: generous or greedy?
How we treat wealth is a barometer for our heart. Does our attitude to wealth reveal us to be generous, or greedy?
Sermons
Blog
Blog
His love endures forever
The first song the people Israel sang in the Temple was: 'God is good; his love endures for ever.'
USA
USA
In the summer of 2013 I left my IT job (writing web software) and moved house to start a training post to be a vicar. Rather than go straight from one to the other, I decided to go via Western USA and Canada, in a convertible Ford Mustang.
Archive
Archive
I’ve had a website since the late 1990s, and it has changed rather dramatically over the years. This section contains some of my favourite bits of my old sites, and some of the most viewed. (At least, it will when it is finished!)
About
About
I was born in Oxford while my father was doing his vicar training at Wycliffe Hall – where I also did my own vicar training, twenty-three years later! As I grew up in a Christian family, God has always been quite naturally at the centre of my life.
Twitter
@revbcg
Quite - we use many words that are not in the Bible to help us describe and understand the nature of God, ourselves, and the world. ‘Trinity’ is the classic example - it isn’t in the Bible but that doesn’t mean what it describes or means is untrue or misleading.
RT @LivingOutOrg: We've recently developed this LO Church Audit to help church families work out whether they are biblically inclusive. How…
Quotations
“Do you want to believe in the living Christ?” says Barth. “We may believe in him only if we believe in his corporeal resurrection. This is the content of the New Testament. We are always free to reject it, but not to modify it, nor to pretend that the New Testament tells something else. We may accept or refuse the message, but we may not change it.”
Karl Barth - Witness to an ancient truth