Category: blessing
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Blessing
A gaelic blessing Deep peace of the running wave to you. Deep peace of the flowing air to you. Deep peace of the running wave to you. Deep peace of the quiet earth to you. Deep peace of the shining stars to you. Deep peace of the infinite peace to you. And deep peace of…
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simply counting
Travelling back from Bluewater in the car yesterday evening (see Friday’s bloggage for details) I had time to reflect a bit on the day. The morning service at our church blessed me immensely. It was not the singing or the sermon or the prayers or actually anything that happened in the service, it was the…
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Counting our blessings again
Once again this year Christian Aid are releasing Count Your Blessings for Lent. Baptist Christians don’t tend to make as much of Lent as other churches, but I thoroughly recommend you take part in this if you can*. The idea is that each day during Lent we are encouraged to consider our position of privilege in…
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the ring of truth!?
God’s timing is incredible (you’d expect it to be really) but it’s wonderful when he uses us as part of his split second timing. This has happened twice in my experience in the last couple of days: phone calls have been made at exactly the right time. On one occasion the person had just been…
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being there
One of the immense privileges of being a pastor is that you are able to be a part of people’s lives at difficult moments. When I was training in the vicar factory I thought that this would be an aspect of the role that I would find really awkward and challenging. I wondered how I…
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ten ways to bless someone in 2012
Here is another list for you… Ten ways to bless other people this year: Pray for them. Consistently. Invite them around for a meal. Surprise them with a gift you have made for them. Send them an email or text message (or letter!) out of the blue, reminding them of some of their good qualities.…
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a blessing for you
As the calendar prepares to tick over to a new year, here’s a blessing for you: May God keep the joys and laughter of the past year with you in the year to come, and may God gently heal the sorrows and hurt of the past year. May God’s peaceful presence fill all the dark…
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out of tune squeaks
Thank you to those friends who expressed concern about the man-flu outbreak. It is now under control and I don’t think will spread from me to become an epidemic of swine flu proportions. In fact, (hem, hem) it probably was only a cold. And (embarrassed shuffling of feet) it has mostly gone. Don’t get me…
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regraced
If we can be disgraced (and I know I can), yesterday I was regraced. And being God, he regraced me abundantly, with baskets-full left over afterwards. I pray that this will be your experience too. Just when I think I have experienced all there is to experience of God’s grace he outdoes himself once again…
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the fruit of the burger
Yesterday was brilliant. We had a lovely service in which we baptised two people with very different testimonies, as I mentioned last week. It was very moving to hear how Dan had turned up at an outreach event we were hosting for Hope in Colchester (Hope 08), drawn by the music. He sat and listened…
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