Category: free sample of Jesus
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daily prayer 6
Friday – People-focused In a world where the population is measured in billions, help us to love people as Jesus did – one person at a time. Use our words and actions to change lives and transform communities in Mutley, Plymouth, this country and the wider world. May we have sight beyond big issues to…
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daily prayer 5
Thursday – Generously big-hearted Jesus, you invite us to participate in your Kingdom where the last are first and servants are considered great. Help us to reflect your humble generosity in the way that we serve and how we consider others. We rely on you above all, and yet also on each other, to be…
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daily prayer 4
Wednesday – Ethically motivated Our Father in heaven, as we pray that your Kingdom will come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, we recognise that this prayer changes us. Influence our choices, inspire our actions and enable us to live with our eyes open to the impact of our…
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daily prayer 3
Tuesday – Lovingly inclusive Jesus, may we, like you, lovingly celebrate all whom we meet this week. Make us aware of our own prejudices and replace them with your all-embracing love. May we actively seek, welcome and include those who are on the margins of society and church. Help us to recognise you in each…
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daily prayer 2
Monday – God-orientated Ever-present God, help us to be mindful of you in all that we do this week. May we meet you in the conversations with others, discover you in our activities, and rest in you in the spaces in between our busyness. We offer ourselves, our work and our leisure as an act…
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daily prayer 1
We invite you to join with the Mutley Baptist Church family by sharing in the same prayer each day. There’s no set time at which you need to be praying the prayer – include it in your praying whenever that is best for you. Our week’s prayers begin with Jesus’ call for us to love…
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realising reality
I know that I am showing my age, but I struggle with the idea that you can make a living by posting content online. The idea that someone’s job might be ‘Youtuber’ is bizarre to me. I know the mechanics of it (I have not monetised this bloggage) but it’s the concept that I struggle…
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Do you want your shoes back now?
The age old saying goes: “You can’t understand someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes” (or variations on that theme). I get what it’s saying, but I don’t think it’s right. It’s not enough. Walking a mile in someone’s shoes is about us experiencing life as they do, but only to do…
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#versesofhope
Each week on our church Facebook page I am putting an image with a Bible verse that relates to the season of Advent and Christmas. Last week, this was the one I put up. I’ll put up this week’s in a couple of days. Bless you
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Playfully creative
This is the sixth and final value that our church has recently adopted. The process by which we discerned and distilled the values was using an exercise I call ‘The Ideal Church Exhibition’. Groups, made up of diverse people from across the church, worked together to draw ‘The Ideal Church’ – where the only limit…
