Category: followers of Jesus
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spam, spam, spam, spam
The first time I got one of those emails it was quite exciting. I was being offered the opportunity to make a life-changing amount of money simply by helping a poor war widow from Africa to gain access to her late husband’s estate. All they needed was to use my bank account for a few…
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World Book Day
As I have done previously, this morning I am recycling a ‘thought for the week’ that I have circulated to the Ministers in our Association. This morning my Facebook feed is full of photos from my friends of their children dressed up as characters from books to participate in World Book Day. It’s very entertaining,…
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possibly the most difficult service of the year
In the UK this Sunday is marked as Mothering Sunday. And, when you are a local church Minister, it is one of those Sundays that takes a disproportionate amount of thought and preparation. It is a day when, when I have got it ‘wrong’, I have had more complaints than any other in the calendar…
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prayer support
I’ve just been writing my monthly prayer diary, which is sent to a group of people who have offered to pray for me and the Ministry to which God has called me. As I was about to send it out I remembered that my Grandparents told me that they used to pray for me every…
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The parable of the okay Samaritan
(This is the most recent parable we are sharing with our churches. It is based on The Message paraphrase of the Bible). Just then a religious scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. “Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?” He answered, “What’s written in God’s Law? How do you…
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stone-faced
I was just innocently browsing my news feed on Facebook (other social media sites are available, apparently) and was struck by something someone had posted: they said that they were no longer welcome in a particular church. Now, I do not know the person in question. I do not know any of the context. So…
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the parable of the router
Yesterday I got home after visiting a church and was surprised to see that our Broadband connection had stopped working. I phoned our service provider and they checked the line and couldn’t see any problem. They decided that they needed to send an engineer out and I was a bit alarmed at being told that…
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blessed
Yesterday I celebrated the anniversary of my exit from my mother’s womb and I was blessed. I was blessed by the gifts and cards from friends and family. I was blessed by the many birthday greetings. I was blessed by spending some of the day discerning God’s will for someone. I was blessed by the arrival…
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eh?
As I was driving home after spending an inspirational morning with one of our Chaplains I was listening to some music and realised for the first time that I had misheard some of the lyrics, and had kept that misheard interpretation in my mind for many years. Coincidentally I also saw a post on Facebook…
