I’m attempting to:           . . be human           . . be church           . . be contemplative           . . be transformative           . . be conscious           . . be alive           . . be free           . . be God's           . . be   Made with Xara Web Designer To contact me: Address: 85 Beech Lane      Macclesfield      Cheshire      SK10 2DY    United Kingdom Tel:   [0]1625 426110 Email: maccteamparish@googlemail.com    HOW THEN SHALL WE LIVE?  2009 Macclesfield Lectures 1. 'Responding to Global Poverty'       by Prof Michael Woolcock      20th October 2009     Talk - download here     Presentation - download here 2. 'Citizens or Consumers?'      by Mr Cliff Mills      3rd November 2009      Talk - download here      Presentation - download here 3. ‘A Space for Nature’      by Mr Simon Wightman      10th November      Talk - download here      Presentation - download here   ‘Preaching is not about exposition but about inscribing folk into the story through re-narrating it’  Stanley Hauerwas Since April 2005 I have been team rector of the Macclesfield Team Ministry, Cheshire, England.  The parish consists of half the market town and has four centres of worship.  If you want to know more about this, please click here. Prior to coming to Macclesfield I was vicar for 19 years of an inner-city parish in Birmingham, called Bordesley Green. This is a highly multi-cultural part of this large city and you can read something about the mission I was involved with by reading some of the papers on the articles page. Before all of this I trained as an electronic engineer in the aircraft industry.  I am married with two grown up children. My main concern is to keep my faith, spirituality, humanity and understanding developing, in the hope that I can also help others to do the same. The Twelve Step Programme Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character Step 7 - Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs LINKS:   http://www.12step.org/ http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/geninfo/05steps.htm Most Recent: 1.  The story of Jonah - audio & script 2.  Lent & the 12 Step programme - audio & notes 3.  Temptations in Leadership        Ash Wednesday Talk - audio & notes 4.  Attention and Distraction - audio & notes 5.  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me                                     - notes & audio 6.  Our Purpose Statement - audio & write up For Lent Course Notes - click here