Category: followers of Jesus
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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…
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Fresh starts
Yes, it’s been a long time since my last bloggage, and I am sorry. However, I am hoping to be able to do this more regularly now (stop groaning). And what better way of making a fresh start than writing about fresh starts? As you can see from the picture, at Mutley Baptist Church we…
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leadership
In the light of the items dominating the news and social media at the moment I was going to write something humorous, scathing or pithy about politicians, wine, garden parties, meetings and apologies. But instead, after pausing to ponder, I want to offer a positive vision of what leadership could be, based on my [ahem]…
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happy to be unsound
I used to be theologically sound, but I don’t think I am anymore – and I am glad. When I was much, much younger I was ‘sound’ because I repeated what I had been told was ‘sound’ by others who told me about Jesus. I hadn’t really thought about it, I just accepted it. I…
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cruel to be kind
Have you heard that phrase? Has anyone said it to you to justify their behaviour or words? Have you used it to explain why you acted or spoke in a certain way? Apparently the phrase first appeared in Shakespeare’s Hamlet where he justifies cruel behaviour to prevent a greater harm. Nick Lowe released a song…
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words almost fail…
Speechless! Shocked! Traumatised! Atrocity! Hideous! Unimaginable! These words and many others have been uttered and thought in Plymouth over the past couple of weeks since the Keyham killings. While it was not on our doorstep as a family or directly near our church building (although there are several Baptist churches very close by) we as…
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