The world can wait

  Christmas normally involves travel, as families get together - but not this year!  Not so many will be driving home for Christmas in 2020 as a consequence of the social restrictions due to the pandemic.    Many people were travelling the first Christmas. Pregnant Mary and her husband Joseph walked 90 miles over the hills to reach Bethlehem. Many others like them were travelling because the Roman census required them to return to their ancestral towns to register. Some shepherds travelled a much shorter distance from the fields outside Bethlehem to see a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger, whose birth had been announced to them by angels!  The Magi (wise men) came many hundreds of miles, possibly on camels, as they followed a strange star in order to give presents to a new-born king.    But the person who travelled the furthest that first Christmas was the baby in the manger.  The distance he came isn’t measured in miles, but in...

Today I have an interview with Pastor David Magowan from Carey Baptist Churc h . He's been  co-pastor at Carey since 2009, although we'd known each other some time before that. (Carey of course is the church that I attend.) The thinking behind this interview is that some people assume Pastor's work one day a week - Sunday. They turn up, preach and go home and don't come back til the following week. Unless there is a wedding on the Saturday. So I asked David if he'd do an interview to show us what a Pastor does during the rest of the week, and he very kindly agreed. So, thank you very much for sharing so openly and honestly with us.  On with the questions. 1.              How long have you been a Christian? Can you tell us a little about your conversion? I became a Christian when I was 14 years old.  My parents were Christians, and when I was born they were missionaries in Jamaica. My father...