When I first started going to Abingdon to see what was happening there, I found myself on my way to the Salvation Army building near the town centre. I parked up, only to see someone I recognised from a prayer and worship time the night before. She was right there in the car park talking through a sheet of paper with an elderly gentleman. I left her to it and walked into the building across the street ready for a cup of coffee and to be taught how to do The Turning. I later heard from her that she had prayed a prayer to Jesus with the man.

Over the last few weeks I've found myself musing on the question of God's timing. As a human, God's timing is all too often not what I would want! He seems to not respond until the last minute, or answers a different question to the one I am asking! Am I simply to have a posture of submission, or am I supposed to know what he is up to? After all, Amos 3:7 says 'God does nothing without revealing it to his servants ' so surely, like the Men of Issachar, I am supposed to 'understand the times and know what we ought to do' (1 Chronicles 12:32)?

Something new is happening in Oxford this spring, as Oxford Community Church embarks on an exciting new adventure – and you can join in! Many people will be taking annual leave in the week Sunday 30th April to Saturday 6th May 2017, and I encourage you to consider doing the same, so that you don’t miss out on anything in this transformative week.

We're going to play a bit of an old sermon about the Lewis Revival tomorrow morning. It's good stuff, not least for helping us to understand that Jesus is God of heaven and earth, and that his power overshadows whole communities.

For those that want to listen to the whole sermon, click here.

Whilst preaching this morning, I mentioned a few things that Christians are doing to display God’s love in great ways in different parts of the world.

If you want to find out more about any of them, here are some links:

Love Running: www.woodlandschurch.net/love-running

Love Singapore: http://ja-jp.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=360413816170 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZedK3zHCz4

I've just got home from the first Cafe Church at Costa on the Cowley Road. There were about 25 of us, including 4 or 5 people who I'd not met before. It was great to meet new people, and a great venue to sit and talk about things that really matter.

The subject for the evening was 'Confidence', as in self-confidence and self-esteem. Now, I can confess that I went to the evening thinking that the subject would be of interest to others, but not something that felt tremendouly meaningful to me.

I love going fishing! I’ve just spent a few hopeful hours casting a line into a lake near Chipping Norton, as the dusk gradually deepened and trout began to mock me by jumping out of the water every few seconds. A series of my flies (that is, hooks tied with twine to make them look like flies) had ended up stuck in the tree behind me, and I was running out of options. I’d had several fish bite at my hook, but I was tired and my reactions were too slow.