Category: Christmas
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be vigilant
Tonight at the church we are holding a Christmas vigil. It is an attempt to offer a gentle, peaceful reflection in this wonderful season that can be very busy for everyone. It will hopefully be a refuge from the hustle and bustle of the preparations for Christmas and an opportunity for us to experience God’s…
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we three king…
We have created our own church Christmas card this year. We ran a competition for anyone in our church to design the card and had some fantastic entries. Emily’s Nativity Scene Produced by our 3-5s group Thomas’s Bethlehem Scene We Three King Penguins of Antarctica by Rebecca These are the entries from children in our…
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shiver
I had a shiver-down-the-spine moment in my car yesterday. It was not the cold. Nor was it my driving. I was listening to the radio and they played Annie Lennox singing ‘See Amid The Winter’s Snow’. Ooooooh. It was a combination of her wonderful voice, a beautiful arrangement and the words that sent the shiver:…
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woofers and tweeters*
This is a follow-on from yesterday’s post about the busy-ness of Christmas. One of the impacts on Ministers of the many different events is that we have to come up with something to say at them all, and I feel compelled to prepare something different for each one. This is not just because there is…
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Dear Father Christmas…
It’s only 29 days to Christmas. Somehow the countdown seems less important to me than when I was a child. I’m not sure how far back the countdown would be (I don’t think it ever reached 3 figures) but with a birthday in February it always seemed a long time until presents. On Sunday morning…
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