Tag: prayer
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doubt that is bigger than ants
A while back I remember reading a little phrase that stuck with me because it needed to be mulled and pondered and reflected on: “Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.” Apparently it was Frederick Buechner who wrote that in Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC. I found it amusing, and…
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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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s l o w m o t i o n . . .
I had an interesting experience yesterday. I was preaching at a church where I had previously done a magic show for their leaders and their partners. Yesterday one of them told me that he had taken a video of some of the show, and in particular had a slow motion video of a ‘knife throwing’…
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praying
This morning I spent some time at a prayer space at South Woodham Evangelical Church and found it very helpful. During the time several different thoughts occurred to me and a couple of them stuck. One is that I personally find it a lot easier to spend time in prayer if I have activities to engage…
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short thought
Yesterday’s bloggage was something of a hairy extinct pachyderm*, wasn’t it? So today I want to give you a very short thought by way of a pome what I writ 16 years ago. I have a little problem with something Jesus said. It’s not that I think he’s wrong, more like a bit misled. You…
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I was lucky to come third
Last night was the stage competition for the Mid Essex Magical Society and once again I entered. The some reason this year I was quite nervous. That was not the case in previous years and I couldn’t work out why I was nervous this year. I think it affected my performance a little bit but even…
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I am a loser
This pome what I wroted a while back summarises how I feel at the moment: Symbiosis My wife says I’m a loser I’m inclined to think she’s right. I don’t know where my things are but She doesn’t share my plight. Though my keys aren’t where I leave them She always finds them there. Somehow…
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a momentary interlude
To keep the suspense for my final atonement instalment I am making you wait until next week with a brief momentary interlude: here’s the ‘thought for the week’ that I shared with EBA Ministers this week… Don’t we just love the weather in this country? I’m not talking about any particular type or weather: just weather…
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chatting with God
Dearest bloggists First of all let me apologise for the more-intermittent-than-usual nature of my blog posts recently. That is down to me not having enough time near my computer to communicate some of the random thoughts that bounce around my brain through my fingers, via the keyboard, onto the blog. That may not improve over the…