Category: Christmas
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a Christmas pome for you all
Was the nativity scene actually Christmas card serenity When you arrived kicking and screaming out of eternity? Would you rather have been back inside Mary’s belly? Than in prickly hay – all animal-slobber-smelly? Were your parents concerned about where you were lying? Did you keep the animals awake with your new-born crying… And the cattle get their…
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Christmas presence
As Christmas day gallops gleefully towards us I thought it may be time for a more serious reflection than some of the fluffy frivolity of recent days. So here goes… The ten best things of this Christmas so far (in no particular order): Hosting carol services and nativity plays for a local school on our…
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Christmas has officially started
Even though I say so myself, last night’s Carols by Candlelight was brilliant! The church was pretty full, the choir sang beautifully, the readers read wonderfully, the technical side of things worked seamlessly, the refreshments afterwards (with Get in The Picture too) were excellent (hall packed) and we all left with a wonderfully warm, Christmassy…
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top ten tips for Christmas
In reverse order: 10. Don’t start too early. It’s difficult to maintain the excitement for months on end. If the month doesn’t have a ‘d’ in it, perhaps it’s too soon. 9. Enjoy advent. Advent does not mean ‘chocolate’ (answer given in a recent assembly!!) but is the season of preparation, anticipation and listening. 8.…
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the toughest challenge
I am about to embark on one of the most challenging tasks of the whole year… putting all of the finishing touches to our Carols by Candlelight service (Colchester Baptist Church, 6.30 pm, 18th December). It is not technically that difficult. We have already chosen all the carols and the readings more or less choose…
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Away in a feeding trough
With the wonders of modern technology I am creating this bloggage while sitting in our church. It’s rather busy here at the moment: we have children and young people from a local school here practicing for their Carol Service here tonight; and I had to tell a story to a group of pre-schoolers (our Bright…
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Christmas and believer’s baptisms: natural companions?
Today has been full of schools. Our church is playing host to a local school for their Christmas concerts, and today we had the lower school rehearsing all morning. They are a very talented group of children, with staff who are dedicated to helping them achieve their full potential. I know that there will be…
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Get in there!
This year we are participating again in Get In The Picture at our church. We have a brilliant artist (thanks Gill) who is painting a display for us with cutouts into which people will be able to put their heads (thanks to Dave S for the craftsmanship), a bit like the seaside photoboards. We will also have…
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roll on Christmas!
For an alternative take on the Nativity, follow this link and watch it as you have never seen it before – starring Facebook friends from our church and my family… http://bit.ly/sxWEvE
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Keep taking the tablets
I am just about to take a couple of tablets and it reminds me of the famous scene in The Matrix when our hero, Neo, is offered two pills (actually they look like Jelly Beans to me). The blue pill will keep him in what he assumes to be his present reality and the red pill will…
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