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It is often a passing phrase that catches the eye, isn’t it? Like when I read Tim Keller’s book, Preaching, four years ago. A little phrase squeezed its way into my imagination. It refused to move. It remained there, sparking away. Page 73: ‘pull on the thread’. This was the month to do something about it. I…
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“Well, Well, Well. I thought you had disappeared from the blogosphere.” “Yes, I know. It’s been the longest gap between posts in 15 years. With changes in regulations, my own blog had become inaccessible to me. Rather awkward! But then I’ve been on the road (almost) since the last post. But now I’m back home…
READ MOREAs March 2019 opens up, it brings to completion ten years for me in this work. It has been a “grace given me” (Romans 12.3), a gift from God that I neither expected nor deserved. It has taken me among the peoples of the world to encourage the ministries of the Word by which people…
READ MOREI am almost 60 years of age. Just time for one more job before I retire. What will it be? Easy peasy. What about becoming a travel agent cum tour guide, taking people around India? That’ll do just fine. I started working on my CV this week, by finding all the posts on this blog that…
READ MOREI don’t think I’ve ever read a book so slowly… “Well Paul, that is what happens when you stop to locate every place in Googlemaps and cross-reference every person in Wikipedia.” Yes, I know – but it was so captivating. Austria is now deep in my bucket-list and it has nothing to do with The…
READ MOREI’ve been to France only once and that was for one day. I hopped on the ferry in Portsmouth one Saturday evening, sleeping diagonally on the tiny bed overnight and squeezing vertically into the shower in the early morning. I spent the Sunday near St Malo with my colleagues, Mike and Marie-Laure. Then it was…
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[12/03/23: With Andy returning home yesterday, after 2+ weeks in hospital with severe, unexplainable pain, it was good to remember these happier times—with him & Ines, Ruth & Graham]. Taking friends around Hamara Hindustan (“our India”, as this is where we grew up together) is one of our very favourite things to do. There is…
READ MORERoad trips in the US of A. One of my favourite things to do, although they are not as much fun on my own, as I was this time. After meetings in Miami, I took a flight to Charlotte, rented a car and drove off to visit some of the people under my watch. 1068…
READ MOREWhen you go walking in India, there is always so much to see. This week, after a trip of 40+ hours, Barby and I walked around a large block of Kammanahalli, here in Bangalore. It was India in microcosm. At one point, this sign outside an auto-mechanic’s shop caught my eye. I had a little…
READ MOREI laughed. I would have laughed even more if the theatre had been filled with Singaporean-Chinese people, rather than Indians. That would have been great fun. Crazy Rich Asians is a comedy. We watched the sanitised version, with India’s censor adding bleeps/blobs and deleting scenes (probably – how am I to know, really?). Still, we…
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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.