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Methodist Bishop: What does it mean to be happy? Part 1
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. What does it mean to be happy? Ezekiel 2.1-7, 2 Corinthians 2.1-12, Mark 6.7-9. Here are some lyrics from a song that got several young people put in prison just for dancing along to it. See if you recognise what all the fuss was about. It might seem crazy what I'm about to say;. Sunshine she's here, you can take a break,. I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space. With the air, like I don't care baby, by the way. Bring me down, I said.
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Methodist Bishop: February 2015
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Friday, February 27, 2015. The Cheshire Cat and Jesus' First Day. I'd like to read a short passage from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll:. Alice was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought…. That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. I don't much care where- ' said Alice. The businessman and entrepreneur John...
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Methodist Bishop: Jeremiah, Jesus & The Moral Compass
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Saturday, March 28, 2015. Jeremiah, Jesus and The Moral Compass. These passages tell us about two important moments in salvation history which have helped people to decide which way they ought to go. The first is the promise God made to Jeremiah, that God's People will no longer need to ask for directions but will be given their own internal satellite navigation system. Teeth which were being set on edge. Jeremiah's generation was lost and didn't know which way t...
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Methodist Bishop: The Cheshire Cat and Jesus' First Day
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Friday, February 27, 2015. The Cheshire Cat and Jesus' First Day. I'd like to read a short passage from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll:. Alice was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought…. That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. I don't much care where- ' said Alice. The businessman and entrepreneur John...
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Methodist Bishop: December 2013
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Saturday, December 07, 2013. Isaiah 11.1-10, Romans 15.4-13. Matthew 11.2-11. Which famous politician had a pop song written about him which went to number nine in the UK charts, was performed to a worldwide television audience of more than 600 million people and is reckoned by the New Statesman magazine to be one of the top twenty political anthems of all time? No prizes for guessing the answer if I tell you that the song's. 8216;There were many dark moments whe...
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Methodist Bishop: November 2013
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Thursday, November 14, 2013. The Big Daddy of Them All. Genesis 32.22-31, Luke 18.1-8, 2 Timothy 3.14 - 4.5. Has been a red letter year for wrestling. After first being dropped, wrestling was then quickly reinstated as an Olympic Sport this year and wrestlers will after all take part in the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. However, wrestling remains on probation after wrestling bouts were accused of being boring and hard to understand. 8217; Big Daddy enquired. We mi...
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Methodist Bishop: What does it mean to be happy? Part 2
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Friday, July 31, 2015. What does it mean to be happy? Jeremiah 23.1-6, 2 Corinthians 12.2-10, Mark 6.30-34. The Christian approach to happiness finds it through engagement not detachment, through loving God and others as much as we love ourselves. The Bible’s recipe for happiness has three key ingredients, then - righteous living, trust and compassion. These are what we need to seek if we wish, in the words of the song, to ‘Be happy! View my complete profile.
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Methodist Bishop: March 2015
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Saturday, March 28, 2015. Jeremiah, Jesus and The Moral Compass. These passages tell us about two important moments in salvation history which have helped people to decide which way they ought to go. The first is the promise God made to Jeremiah, that God's People will no longer need to ask for directions but will be given their own internal satellite navigation system. Teeth which were being set on edge. Jeremiah's generation was lost and didn't know which way t...
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Methodist Bishop: August 2014
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Sunday, August 24, 2014. Isaiah 49.13-19, Matthew 5.1-11. He was not a volunteer. By the time he was called up from a reserved occupation in the middle of 1917 he could have been in no doubt how dangerous it was to serve on the front line. His sole aim was to survive and come home in one piece. Beating the Germans did not seem to have interested him at all. A good enough reason. I don't know how he got back to his own lines - he talked vaguely of turning back...
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Methodist Bishop: May 2014
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A blog by a Methodist minister in the UK. Thursday, May 29, 2014. I don't believe in an interventionist God. Matthew 28.1-10, 1 Corinthians 15.1-11. I like Nick Cave’s song because of its audacious first line: ‘I don’t believe in an interventionist God’. What an unlikely way to begin a love song! He once explained that he wrote the song while sitting at the back of an Anglican church where he had gone with his wife Susie, who presumably. Of religion, not. But sometimes I struggle to believe in an. An int...
