Issue 05 Preaching to the unconvertedBlog | What I’ve learnt THE WISDOM OF A SEASONED PREACHER
What I’ve learnt THE WISDOM OF A SEASONED PREACHER
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 10.12.15
Graeme Garden was born in 1935, a non-conformist by birth. His mother was a Congregationalist (pre URC), and his father the son of a Baptist minister. With the outbreak of war in 1939 and the subsequent fuel restrictions, which ruled out excessive use of the family car, a decision was taken to transfer loyalties to the nearby Methodist church, a decision which proved, possibly, the most significant change in Graeme’s Christian journey having celebrated, this year, his sixty-first year as a Local Preacher.
William Cowper – the writer of several much loved hymns – is perhaps best known for writing ‘God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform’, a hymn that has for many years been high on my personal list of favourites. It is filled with challenging, inspiring and reassuring promises, culminating, in the sixth verse, with the words — ‘Blind unbelief is sure to err/and scan his work in vain/God is his own interpreter/and he will make it plain’.
