page two

This morning. Sheer bliss.

Why?

Copies of The Times of India and The Hindu started being thrown up our stairs once again, complete with wrinkles. I did think about getting out the iron, but then decided against it…

This morning. The second page in The Times of India. Look at it. Do you know another newspaper that does this kind of thing – regularly?

Just look at the graphics and information so carefully prepared for me. “A set of facts to clear the most common misperceptions about migration.” I’ve poured over them. So fascinating.

Having offered such praise, is the heading next to #2 correct? I am a bit confused by this one.

“Eat your heart out, The New Zealand Herald. I saw one of you at the airport in Singapore on Saturday. Dear, oh dear. What have you done to yourself?!”

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Paul

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the art of unpacking

After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.

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  1. Unknown on August 7, 2018 at 11:01 pm

    Hi Paul,
    We'd like to use an photo we found on your blog that you took of John Stott's grave for a powerpoint in a sermon on Psalm 49 at Jesmond Parish Church to be shown on Clayton.TV, a Christian TV Internet site. Would it be OK for us to use it?
    Many thanks Zoe Earnshaw

  2. Paul on August 7, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    No worries – thanks for asking, Zoe

    Paul

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