An Irish personal evangelistic site. I'm not representing a particular church, but it's broadly evangelical in tone. My aim is to cover topics I've encountered in discussions I've had over the years, mainly here in Ireland..
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I’ve been on WordPress.com for almost a year now. Let me take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year. Here are a few “new year” songs that I remember from my earlier years. Here in Ireland, New Year’s Day is nowhere near as good as Christmas, but it’s always nice to feel a … Continue reading Happy New Year
I got into pop music when I was 10, back in autumn 1972. I thought it might be fun to look back at the Christmas hits since then – at least songs that I can personally remember. My focus is on the UK charts because that’s what I’m most familiar with, though I’m Irish. 1970s … Continue reading Christmas Hits
I remember going into a record shop in South Kensington, London, back in 1982 and hearing Frustration by Soft Cell. I didn’t know who sung it when I heard it. There wasn’t any web back then, but I eventually found out who sung it. Marc Almond wasn’t really ordinary. The “ordinary” guy in the video … Continue reading I Am So Ordinary 😀
In this little series, I take a glance at some of the very modern worship songs. I’m only getting familiar with these in the last few years. I remember back in the 1990s, I started growing tired of the newer songs and focusing on the old hymns. But nowadays, I like all Christian music. This … Continue reading Hymns: 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
Nowadays, I listen to books more than I read them, but I’m trying to get back into reading. Our house is full of books, mainly non-fiction. Most of mine relate to Christianity, music, history and railways. As it happens, I’m currently listening to and reading The Cross of Christ by John Stott. I probably bought … Continue reading The Cross of Christ
I remember meeting some well-known names when I worked with London City Mission for a year back in 82-83 as a voluntary evangelist. These included David Pawson, RT Kendall and John Stott. All three are famous in Christian circles, particularly in evangelical circles. But the most famous would probably be John Stott. He was the … Continue reading John Stott
I’d like to say physics and chemistry but I wasn’t necessarily into these much before third-level. Let me think – here’s a list of subjects that we did in primary school in order of preference: Then, in secondary school: Arts and Crafts and technical drawing were easy subjects. I appreciated religion because it related to … Continue reading Arts and Crafts
Well, computers have been part of the corporate world for my whole life. If that hadn’t happened, I don’t know how it would have impacted my life. Before that, “computer” was a person who was tasked with doing work that digital computers now do. Maybe I’d’ be a computer myself 😀. But I’ve lived about … Continue reading I’d Be Back in the 1980s
In this blog I spend a lot of time writing about my past experience on the Christian/Baptist scene and also on my interest in pop and rock music. This week in Limerick, I notice a strange coming together of both worlds. Way back in 1992, we had our last service at the old Limerick Baptist … Continue reading Limerick Beat Club Experience
I assume that this is asking me which I prefer. As a child, we had plenty of dogs and cats as pets. I also had two white rabbits, a little white mouse, a couple of birds, and some tropical fish. Then, as an adult, I never allowed my kids to keep pets. But I do … Continue reading Lion of Judah
Hibernia Gospel 