Tag: grace
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out of all proportion
When our children were very young I started something that became a family ‘thing’. I was messing around with them and, resting my head on top of one of our son’s head, I jiggled my jaw back and forth. It made him laugh so I did it again. Our daughter didn’t see what I had done but…
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at four ment
(If you are fresh to this blog you may be somewhat confused by the title of this bloggage: if so I suggest you look at the preceding three entries and you should get the idea!) [To get the best out of this bloggage you may need to have some music in the background such as The…
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decluttering
Hopefully in the next couple of months we will be moving house. In anticipation of that we are starting the process of clearing out the clutter that we have accumulated in 7 years of living here (plus some that we have brought with us from previous houses!). It’s amazing how much stuff just gathers dust…
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fingerpoints
This cartoon is both funny and disturbing at the the same time. It’s funny in the same way that it was funny when Jesus gave the original teaching in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you…
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customer service
I do like nice coffee. It is one of my little indulgences. And to that end I was chuffed when Sally (Mrs Nukelearfishing) gave me a nice glass mug (full of sweets) for Valentine’s Day. Somehow it makes drinking nice coffee just that little bit nicer. In fact it was so nice that when I…
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harumph!?
In case you didn’t realise I was away at a conference for the first three days of this week. While I was there I was checking my emails when I saw an urgent message from someone who needed a relatively instant response from me that I was unable to deal with until I got home.…
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take a tablet
Christians sometimes pay more attention to the Ten Commandments than the Sermon on the Mount. On the basis that we pay most attention to what is written on tablets of stone Jesus has sent another stone tablet… Be blessed, be a blessing
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running away or towards?
Something dawned on me. A lightbulb lit. The mental microwave went ‘ping’. In the gospels there are two accounts of failed fishing trips on Galilee. The first is at the start of Jesus’ ministry (Luke 5:1-11) and the second is right at the end (John 21:1-13). In the first one Jesus had been using a…
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The sacrificial penguin
Stew the rabbit and I were performing a card trick for some young people at our church on Friday evening. I was rather vexed when, after getting a volunteer to sign their chosen playing card, I got some green marker pen on Stew. It showed up rather obviously on his white face. I couldn’t just…
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theology from a joke?
A while ago the website Ship of Fools ran a competition to find the funniest religious joke. This was the winner, from comedian Emo Philips: Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in…
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