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BETWEEN HERE AND NOW: some thinking aloud by a preacher without a pulpit : The living is easy?
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015. The living is easy? In the last couple of weeks, we have had the usual mix of weather that goes to make up an English summer. Some days have seen blazing hot sunshine. On others, a whole lot of rain has fallen in a single day. Is now past for another year and the Ashes won back from some kind of scratch team from the southern hemisphere. In summertime, the living really does seem easy. If we carry a picture in our minds that the life that God invites us to lead is only made up of...
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BETWEEN HERE AND NOW: some thinking aloud by a preacher without a pulpit : Inclusion and discipleship
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Wednesday, 14 August 2013. Twice this week I’ve been challenged by friends about whether the church of which I am a part maintains a right balance between being ‘inclusive’ and living a life focused upon being followers of Christ. The following are my initial (and personal) thoughts; they are open to comment and challenge. They are not official church policy nor the last word. If you think I have got it wrong, please set me right (but understand that I enjoy the rough-and-tumble of debate! The only basis...
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BETWEEN HERE AND NOW: some thinking aloud by a preacher without a pulpit : Death and friendship
http://between-here-and-now.blogspot.com/2014/10/death-and-friendship.html
Sunday, 5 October 2014. On Friday evening my sister telephoned to say that one of our childhood friends had died. He was my age. We had not kept in touch. Whole decades of his life were a mystery to me. Now gone. I am fascinated to discover how life has turned out for those with whom I grew up, went to school, studied or worked. Why will two lives rooted in the same soil grow so differently? Why – given a shared start – did their life take that turning; mine another? As it says in Psalm 16. I saw the...
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patience – nukelearfishing
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The weekday random and occasionally humorous musings of a Baptist Minister who is trying to be a free sample of Jesus and look for God in the ordinary. That moment when your computer needs to update and you need to use it… urgently. Yesterday morning I switched my computer on just before 8am and gone to get a cup of coffee. When I got back to my computer I was faced with a message that told me that Windows 10 was installing new updates and that it may take a while. I thought of an update(! I posted somet...
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BETWEEN HERE AND NOW: some thinking aloud by a preacher without a pulpit : Don't look - it's not nice to stare
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Sunday, 26 April 2015. Don't look - it's not nice to stare. I was brought-up to look away. Not to stare at people who are different. I don’t slow down and gawp at road traffic accidents or watch paramedics tending to people on the pavement. To do that isn’t kind or necessary or right. Those appalling images can be cleared from my view at the click of a mouse. And I can be angry for the moment that ‘friends’ have published such graphic images on their pages where I (and others, including c...But I think I...
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hopefulimagination: Hope...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011. A few weeks ago I had a miscarriage. Not as awful as it sounds; I've been prepared for some time with the knowledge that I cannot bear children – I did my grieving long ago. My own experience caused me to stop, and question for a moment. What about those for whom there isn’t a baby at the end of all the waiting? What about those waiting for that which will never come? What about those whose wait will end in bitter disappointment? From time to time my preaching returns to the t...
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Alternatives to Foodbanks |
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September 3, 2014. I originally meant to write this blog some time ago but didn’t write it, thinking that food banks are yesterday’s news. However, my friend and colleague Juliet Kilpin. In a workshop at Greenbelt Festival this year argued. 8230;churches should not be celebrating when they open new food banks but protesting about the fact that they need to do so. I could not agree more with her statement. The status-quo. It seeks to break down barriers between humanity and God and all sorts of barrie...
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BETWEEN HERE AND NOW: some thinking aloud by a preacher without a pulpit : Some thoughts in the hours before Ash Wednesday
http://between-here-and-now.blogspot.com/2014/03/some-thoughts-in-hours-before-ash.html
Tuesday, 4 March 2014. Some thoughts in the hours before Ash Wednesday. Tonight’s the night when traditionally we feast on all the remaining fat and flour in the house in the form of pancakes (best eaten, of course, with sugar and lemon juice or maple syrup). For tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, when the fast of Lent begins. It is a time of repentance and self-denial before the events of holy week, Good Friday and the resurrection at Easter. Another is that our free churches – you remember them? We are set fre...
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