Deloitte Ride Across Britain 2016 Riding for Life Deloitte Ride Across Britain 2016

You’re just a Silly Old Man We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. [George Bernard Shaw]

Stats 9 days 976 miles Average – 110 per day Longest day – 127 58,000 ft of climbing [Twice up Everest!!] 13 times up Ben Nevis

Finishing the Course Currently over £8,000

Cheddar Gorge Day 2

Shap Fell – day 5

More is in You

Greater is He that is in You than he that is in the world – The Spirit of God

“Superhuman Alastair Simmons…who is astonishingly 68”

A miktam of David. [16:1] Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. [2] I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.”  [5] LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. [6] The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. [7] I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. [8] I keep my eyes always on the LORD. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

  [9] Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, [10] because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. [11] You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Miktams of David Psalms 56,57,58,59,60 Psalm 16 Silent Prayer

The Lord of Life – My Life [1-8] The Lord of Death – My Death [9-10] The Lord of Eternity – My Future[11]

The Lord of Life – My Life [1-8]

“I have served in the ministry thirty years, almost thirty-one “I have served in the ministry thirty years, almost thirty-one. I have come to understand that there are two kinds of faith. One says if and the other says though. One says: “If everything goes well, if my life is prosperous, if I’m happy, if no one I love dies, if I’m successful, then I will believe in God and say my prayers and go to the church and give what I can afford.” The other says though: though the cause of evil prosper, though I sweat in Gethsemane, though I must drink my cup at Calvary—nevertheless, precisely then, I will trust the Lord who made me.

So Job cries: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust Him So Job cries: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust Him.” In another of the great psalms David sings: “Though the waters roar and swell, and though the mountains be cast into the midst of the sea. . . the Lord of hosts is with me, the God of Jacob is my strength.” [George Everett Ross] “Well if the worse comes to the worst Alastair, you’ve had a good life” [A Young Pastor]

2. The Lord of Death – My Death [9-10]

3. The Lord of Eternity – My Future[11]