Category: communion
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remembrance
We interrupt the occasional thoughts about prayer to bring you my sermonette from Sunday morning – Remembrance Sunday… It always feels very poignant when I share communion on Remembrance Sunday, as we did last Sunday morning – Remembrance Sunday. The poppies are a moving remembrance of the death of many who have died in war.…
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thoughts on communion
This bloggage began its life as a ‘Thought for the week’ shared with the Ministers I serve in the Eastern Baptist Association. As you will see I have extended my thinking a little since the original ‘Thought’. As you probably know by now I am about to undergo some surgery on 13th February, which will…
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time for Remembering
For those leading services on Remembrance Sunday it can be one of the most fraught days of the year. It is not necessarily because of the content but because most services start before or at 11am on the Sunday and we have to incorporate the 2 minutes’ silence at the right time. This requires a level of…
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Maunding
(This is another ‘Thought for the week’ that is being shared with EBA Ministers today) You may have heard or read Tony Campolo talking about how he was preached off the platform by an old Minister whose theme was “It’s Friday…. but Sunday’s coming!” Tomorrow that theme comes to life (and death). But today it’s Maundy…
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Communion calamities
Warning: if Eucharist / Lord’s Supper / Mass / Communion is something you hold very special and sacred you may want to ignore this bloggage as it contains innocent yet childish irreverence on that theme. As far back as I can remember I have attended Baptist Churches. First of all because my parents took me, and…
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costly communion
During a visit to Oxford my wife Sally went to a the Christian bookshop and came out with a book that is full of the theology for me. ‘When Clergymen Ruled the Earth‘ by Simon Jenkins is a book of cartoons based around church life, and particularly ministers/vicars. I’ve been enjoying some of them this…
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a tale of three meals
I have eaten three significant meals in immediate succession… Last night I sat in the congregation. It’s not very often that I get to do this, without any involvement in a service, but the service at Colchester Baptist Church last night was led by one of our members and the sermon was preached by a…
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communion prayer
Loving God, we give you thanks for all your gifts. In love you gave us Jesus your Son to rescue us from sin and death. To the darkness Jesus came as your light. With signs of faith and words of hope he touched untouchables with love and washed the guilty clean. This is his story.…
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