Category: Jesus
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Son rise
After what some of you may consider to have been a surfeit of pomes (sic) last week, when I was in a reflective mood, this week I am returning to the more ‘normal’ style of bloggage. Except that I’m going to cheat slightly and post a reflection based on something I said in Sunday evening’s…
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B lieve it or not!
Before most people were awake Beside themselves with grief Baffled about how they would move the stone Bewildered about Friday Bemused about the empty tomb Bowled over by the angels* Blurred vision through the tears Blissful in recognition Blessed by the impossible Breathless with excitement *Some later less reliable manuscripts include these words: ‘Behind you’…
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still in secret?
He told me, “No one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit…” He explained Scripture like no-one I have ever heard before. He understood God. He understood me. I thought he was The One. But he can’t be. Look at what they have done to him. He…
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family planning
I wasn’t planning an adoption I already have enough children One has just been torn from my grasp and ripped from my heart Typical of him, though, to be thinking of me Right at the end In the midst of it all I wasn’t planning an adoption but I have just been adopted.
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Water work
Did it tickle? Was the water warm? Was it relaxing, easing away the stress of the day? Were they looking down in embarrassment? Did anyone else wonder whether to say anything? Did anyone else want to stop him? It was so demeaning, so unbecoming, so degrading, so smelly, None of them wanted to do it.…
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Crucify Hymns
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Not really. I mean, I knew it was happening and I did watch from a distance. But it wasn’t like I was wielding a hammer or holding the nails. What’s that? Well, yes I did join in with the crowd but then everybody does don’t they? You…
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SYLOFTRK*
On Easter Sunday evening we going to hold a service that we’re calling “Songs of Resurrection”. It is a sort of Easter Carol Service, where we will sing some of the great hymns and songs of Resurrection and retell the Easter Resurrection narratives to celebrate the fact of Jesus’ resurrection. *I did toy with the…
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the certainty principle
At the moment I am contemplating Sunday evening’s sermon on the first half of Acts 4. One of the things that strikes me as amazing is that when the authorities had the apostles in front of them they did not attempt to argue about or disprove Jesus’ resurrection. It seems they knew that the evidence…
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life in all its fullness
Just a short thought today as I have been out for most of the day… When Jesus told people that he had come to give them “Life in all its fullness” did they realise that the fullness of life includes pain and suffering as well as joy and excitement? Did they understand that the fullness…
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