I bought a small packet to try but never plan on making this my regular drinking coffee. £1.20 for three sachets is just way too expensive, especially considering the way I consume coffee.

Fortunately, it wasn’t an unpleasant experience. There was no bitter after taste, instead it tasted like good quality coffee. I’m just not going to be making it my regular drink. Price is prohibitive and the time spent waiting for my filter coffee to brew is well used thinking through the activities of the day.

Thank you.

Not really in a bad way, although, I think I have reached capacity and could do without anything new and interesting happening over the next week or so just to give me time to work through what’s already taking place.

I am in the middle of preparing for preaching on Sunday at Manor Park Evangelical Church in Worcester. I started by looking at the story of the Good Samaritan, but it has lead me into considering wider issues relating to love and relationships, especially the love of Christ.

During the day I’ve been trying to edit our new website. But thanks to 1001 different things I’ve not been able to devote the week to it that I had originally intended. I’m now faced with a huge amount to do on Friday.

I’m also starting to consider the road ahead. What do the next couple of years look like and what does God want me to do. I think the UK is the right place for me, which is strange in an organisation like Wycliffe, but if I am meant to be here, what part should I be playing in the church? Questions that I should be making time to think through.

Right now I must dash. There’s another job waiting that I can’t put off any longer.

The real purpose of Engage is to provide the opportunity for Christians in the UK to get to see what God is doing in the world. While there are chances to serve (do stuff), the primary focus is on building relationships (being) and learning from the environment you are in and the people you are with. If you want to understand why, you can read my post ‘What on earth are we doing with mission?‘ or go out and buy the Missions Dilemma DVD which outlines some of the issues related to trips built solely around doing.

There are still places available for this year’s trips, so if you’re interested or you know someone who is, you need to get in touch before the closing date on the 19th March.

If you’d like to read some first hand accounts of Engage teams, there’s a whole page devoted to stories from previous years.

It was a pretty poor state of affairs to be honest. Wycombe’s home ground is shared with London Wasps rugby club, and you could tell by the state of the pitch. When the football hit grass it bounced nicely, when it hit mud it just died.

Southampton are making a charge for promotion. They beat top of the table Norwich City at the weekend and should make it into a play-off place by the end of the season. Wycombe on the other hand will be lucky not to get relegated. Unfortunately, last night, you couldn’t tell the difference in the sides as they fought out a really rather dull 0-0 draw.

Ah well, at least I got out to see some sport and it was good to catch up with friends.

God: New evidence is a series of videos examining some of the theory behind the universe, looking at the issues of how we can exist in the way that we do, in what has previously been argued as an environment that came to be by accident.

For your interest, episode four is below. The whole series can be followed on the God: New evidence website, or on YouTube.

The only kind of universe we could possibly live in is one that is fine-tuned for life. Is this enough to explain the remarkable fine tuning of the universe we live in? Should we be surprised that the universe is just right for us? The fourth in a series of six videos exploring how recent scientific discoveries point to the reality of the Creator. Featuring John Polkinghorne, David Wilkinson, Rodney Holder, Peter Williams and Graham Swinerd

The great thing, after almost a week of going downhill, I now feel a little better and on the mend. The bad bit, I’ve been at home for most of the week now… I’m getting so bored of looking at these four walls!

My family, on my dad’s side, were fierce Portsmouth supporters, where as I went to school where the loyalty was behind Southampton. The solution, for me, was to pick a different team to follow and ended up with Liverpool because they won everything (at least they used to).

But, today, Liverpool are out of the FA Cup and the big game of the day is Southampton v Portsmouth. ‘Come on you…’ Maybe the winner of this will become my team for the next round.

Anyway, he recently wrote a rather good post about what he’s learnt from his children.

The last paragraph partly rings true to me too…

A second thing I learned is that having children has expanded my capacity to love. I was single until I was 29. Getting married expanded that love capacity. Having children expanded it further.

Read the whole thing here

I only partly share his experience. I’ve learnt that getting married has expanded my capacity to love. Maybe one day I’ll find the same thing with children – not that I’m in a rush!