The Reverend Garibaldi McFlurry

This is the 25th blog post of July, the 188th posting of this year so far. Here's some of what has been happening in my life on the blog...

Very recently, it was cheers all round for the Derry, Londonderry, Legenderry victory in the UK City of Culture awards for 2013. The people ...

David Cook begins his book by citing another book, The 100. That book surveyed the 100 most influential people from world history, a ranking...

Yesterday as I was having my lunch, I caught a few minutes of TV. Trying to avoid those Loose Women (who terrify me!), I flicked through the...

Here's the mp3 file from Sunday's sermon on true greatness, as the disciples debated among themselves about Who's The Greatest?

Voddie Baucham is a big guy with a big personality, and a powerful Christian apologist in a hostile culture. Last November he spoke at the N...

It’s the most anticipated night of the year. The venue is ready, the stage is set. Famous people are getting out of stretch limos, the camer...

Last month we had a World Cup special, so lots of goodies to link to in this portion of McFlurry's McLinks: On Bible study, Peter Whyte ...

Here's the sermon mp3 from Sunday morning past, preaching on the parable of the Prodigal Son, or as I called it, The Lost Sons .

If I were to ask you today ‘what do you have’, you might think it a terribly rude question. You might turn your mind to your house, possessi...

As you've probably guessed, I'm getting into my photography more and more. We're more than halfway through the 365 photo challen...

The longest chapter in the Bible has always been slightly mysterious for me. Psalm 119, with its 176 verses arranged in 22 sections of 8 ver...

I married my wonderful wife Lynsey. Today we're celebrating God's goodness to us and our first two years of married life.

It’s probably one of the best known of Jesus’ parables. Most people have heard of it, but what is it all about? A parable is an earthly stor...

It's been a while since we looked at Zephaniah, but today's section looks forward to that time when sin and the shame of that sin ar...

On Sunday mornings in Dundonald we're preaching through a section of Mark's Gospel, but for the two holiday Sundays of the Twelfth f...

I just realised this morning that I've been a Twit * for one full year. I signed up initially on 13th July last year to follow the Slugg...

Today is the Twelfth of July, a public holiday in Northern Ireland, and the day when Orange parades are held to celebrate a Dutch World Cup ...

What do the following things have in common: a stuffed puffer fish; a case full of dentures; a human skull; hundreds of umbrellas; and a pou...

This, the third in the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom, took quite a while to read, partly because it is a bit longer than the previous books,...