At the theatre with good friends. #DearEngland

This is a kind & generous feature about my recently published memoir, A Year of the Lord’s Favour.

Deeply worrying times @sheffdio.org

A new purchase - the day is not wasted! #BibleCommentary

Last evening of annual leave. Enjoying the sunshine.

I am absolutely delighted with this appointment- welcome David to @sheffdio.org

Glad to have been able to make this intervention today.

I was consecrated as a bishop in the church of God exactly 8 years ago today. What a lot has happened in that time @sheffdio.org #LightsForChrist #DeoGratias

Sad for @sheffieldunitedfc.bsky.social that they didn’t gain promotion back to the Premier League. #Blades

@bishoppete.bsky.social has emphasised his support to a statement issued by the House of Bishops this morning on Gaza 👇 www.sheffield.anglican.org/house-of-bishops-statement-on-gaza/

Two for joy! Omen for tomorrow? #NUFC

I found this a really rather uplifting homily.

#EasterDay #HeIsRisen #Alleluia 

Easter celebrated in style at Sheffield Cathedral: 30+ candidates confirmed inside, fireworks outside. #Alleluia! 

Easter celebrated in style at Sheffield Cathedral: 30+ candidates confirmed inside, fireworks outside. #Alleluia!

A prayer walk among the bluebells. #MaundyThursday.

I won’t quickly tire of this.

Looking forward to reception of bishop’s advisors and visitors here at Bishopscroft this evening

Where did those 8 years go?! #grateful

Well, that’s a cheering forecast. #Spring

This week in the House of Lords, the Bishop of Gloucester will be on duty today, the Bishop of Guildford tomorrow, and @petewilcox.bsky.social for the rest of the week. Each bishop will read prayers at the start of the sitting day and take part in the business of the House.

‘In reading books, let your motto be, “Much not many”. Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading’. CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877

‘A man has no more right at table to talk all than to eat all’ CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877

Praying for @bishoppete.bsky.social's Lent lecture - 'Painters as Preachers' - at Doncaster Minster tonight. 7.00pm – 7.05pm Welcome 7.05pm – 7.45pm Lent Lecture 7.45pm – 8.05pm Q&A Session 8.05pm – 8.15pm Complin #LightsforChrist #Lent

‘It is a remarkable fact, but we may as well state it, that [clergy] are only human after all; and God has not railed off a holy corner of the earth to serve as a chancel for them, to abide therein by themselves’. CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877

The Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham @malchamb.bsky.social has been officially announced as the next Bishop of Wakefield.  ➡️ www.sheffield.anglican.org/current-arch...

The Venerable Malcolm Chamberlain, Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham, will be the new Bishop of Wakefield in the Anglican Diocese of Leeds, Downing Street announced today. Read more here ⬇️ leeds.anglican.org/who-we-are/n...

‘The vice of the ordained ministry is that we will parsonificate the gospel’. CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877

‘When I see a flamingo gravely stalking along, I am reminded of some of my dignified brethren of the preaching fraternity, who are so marvellously proper that they are just a shade amusing’. CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877

Anyone seen a pair of magpies, by any chance? #AskingForAFriend #NUFC

‘In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.’ CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877 #Well-Being

‘Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.’ CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877 #Well-Being

‘Our Sabbaths are our days of toil, and if we do not rest upon some other day, we shall breakdown.’ CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877 #Well-Being

‘A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind’s face, might not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best’. CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877 #Well-Being

‘We have the treasure of the gospel in earthen vessels, and if there be a flaw in the vessel here and there, let none wonder’ CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877

‘Let it be proposed that when capital punishment is abolished, those are found guilty of murder shall be compelled to listen to a selection of the dreariest Parliamentary orators’. CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877

‘If we can study and do not, if we can have a studious ministry and will not, we no right to call in a divine agent to make up the deficits of our idleness or eccentricity’. CH Spurgeon, ‘Lectures to my Students’, 1877

‘If you do not touch the heart, you will soon weary the ear’. CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877

‘Deacons and sextons trotting over the place [during the sermon] are a torture never to be patiently endured, and should be kindly, but decidedly, requested to suspend their perambulations.’ CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877

‘From stock anecdotes may both we preachers and our hearers be mercifully delivered’ CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877

‘Do you wonder that people do not listen with all their ears if a preacher does not speak with all his heart?’ CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877

Such a privilege to meet the @chiefrabbi.bsky.social Sir Ephraim Mirviz at the 25th anniversary celebration of the United Synagogue in Sheffield this evening. Grateful for his message.

‘Spend more time in the study that you may need less in the pulpit. We are generally longest when we have least to say.’ CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877

‘Be not forever hammering away at the same nail: yours is a large Bible; permit the people to enjoy its length and breadth’. CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877

In preaching, adapt to the congregation: ‘Go up to his level if he is a poor man, go down to his understanding if he is an educated person’. CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877

‘When children are not quiet in a [church service], it is often as much the minister’s fault as theirs’. CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877.

‘There is an ecclesiastical twang which is much admired in the Establishment (of the Church of England), a sort of steeple-in-the-throat grandeur: ‘He that hath yaws to yaw let him yaw’. CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877.

‘Watch & pray’, says the text. ‘Go to sleep’, says the sermon. CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877.

So pleased to see this!

’Brethren, in the name of everything that is sacred, ring the whole chime in your steeple, and do not dun your people with the dingdong of one poor cracked bell.’ CH Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, 1877.