I went for a walk yesterday morning. I had to drop the car off at the garage to get something fixed, so I walked home. It's about a 20 minute walk.

It was early morning (at least for me on a Saturday!), and I felt I ought to be starting the day in prayer. I'm very good at "oughts" - Ali will back me up on that! So I tried "being spiritual", and I just wasn't in the mood, didn't get anywhere.

Walking along, it was a beautiful morning. Sunny, without...

A while ago, I wrote some thoughts on Communion. Now, I want to post some thoughts on the other sacrament common to all Christians, baptism. This is something where my thoughts have been changing a lot over the last year or so, and a comment in a recent thread has made me decide to post.

I was not baptised as a child. When I came to faith in 1990, aged 19, I knew I had to be baptised, and indeed I wanted to be baptised. I started going to an Anglican church, and the way they do things,...

Reading one of the current threads in the forum has inspired me to write about my journey so far relating to communion. I'm not a theologian, this is my personal story.

My background for the 1st 4 years of my Christian life was low Anglican, and the church I went to in Oxford was Calvinist Anglican. I was taught that Communion was a symbol, with terms like "Zwinglian" thrown around. After I left university came 13 years of being in free churches, which could be described...

Or more accurately, a blessed lunch-time at work. Spent some time sat in my car, reading a Christian book and spending time with God. I've been going through a time where God has been dealing with some of my fears / doubts etc, and today he gave me an assurance of his love.

Afterwards, as I walked up to the sandwich shop, the air seemed crisper and the sky bluer. I felt alive.