Category: worship
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pity my simplicity
This morning I shall mostly be preparing an all age service for Sunday morning. It is on the theme of prayer and today I am seeking to put some flesh on the bones of the planning session I had yesterday with my colleague, Susan. I am reminded of the prayer I used to pray every…
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now is the time to worship
I can still remember the moment when I first heard the song, “Come, now is the time to worship.” I was in my first church, in Horsham, and some of the young people in the church were leading the service. They had heard the song and got hold of a CD, which they played at…
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Cântă laudă, cântă laudă *
On Sunday we are nabbing an idea that came from my lovely friends Matt and Juls Hollidge (visit their excellent Kore website!!). They were the worship leaders for the Baptist World Youth Conference in Leipzig, as well as at the youth programme at the Baptist World Congress in Birmingham UK, not Alabama). They had the…
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apologies to St Francis!
I have been considering a song or hymn to follow my sermon on ‘patience’ (see yesterday’s blog) on Sunday morning. There were several candidates but in the end I went for ‘Blessed assurance’ which is a great old hymn. The verses are relevant to what I think I will be saying, but the chorus goes:…
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should have gone to [a certain brand of opticians whose name I will not use as I am not being paid for advertising on this blog, but now you are thinking of them so I have failed in trying not to mention them]
I have just come back from an eye test. I can remember the days when you just had to look at some letters on the wall and the optician would shine a torch in your eyes to have a quick look. Today’s experience was a high-tech equivalent of a medieval torture! I had air puffed…
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