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Epiphany Moments
Order of service with hymns and Bible readings here Link to the audio of my sermon (with a prayer and reading before from Fr Simon) here Transcript: I wonder if it actually happened like we’ve just heard in our Gospel reading, if there … Continue reading
Posted in Bible (passages and study), Christianity, Deep Thinking, Photos, Sermons (My Own)
Tagged Blessed Virgin Mary, Christmas, community, crucifixion, difference, Epiphany, homeless, Isaiah 60, Jesus Christ, Joseph, maggi dawn, Maggi Dawn - Beginnings and Endings, Matthew 2, Mumford and Sons, Mumford and Sons - Awake My Soul, openness, passion, peace, photoaday2013, postaday2013, resolution, respect, revelation, Salisbury, self worth, shine, St Michaels, stars, sunrise, truth, unity, vulnerability, world
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An Invitation
Looking back through my theological reflection notes from 2011, I came across this… The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to do or believe so that we can be saved. Rather, it’s about seeing what … Continue reading
Posted in Book Quotes, Christianity
Tagged faith, God, journey, Life, Marcus Borg, relationship, The Heart of Christianity, truth
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Lent 2012: Day Forty-Three – Holy Wednesday
Revelation 15:4 Lord, who will not fear and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your judgements have been revealed.’ I haven’t chosen today’s verse from the Book of Revelation because I like it, I’ve chosen … Continue reading
Posted in *Favourites*, Bible (passages and study), Christianity, Deep Thinking, Love, Poetry
Tagged A Poison Tree, Bible, Church, communion, community, Exodus 15, fear, fundamentalism, God, Gospel, heaven, holiness, Holy Week 2012, Jesus Christ, judgement, Lent 2012, liberalism, Mark 6, mystery, peace, priesthood, revelation, Revelation 15, Romans 15, sin, The Fall, Thomas Talbott, truth, war, William Blake
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Lent 2012: Day Thirty-Three
Hebrews 5:8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. Walked home with a friend after church this morning and he said something that’s stuck in my mind: Jesus died because we needed it, not because the … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, disciples, Fr David Stoter, Gospel of Philip, Hebrews 5, hope, humanity, Jesus Christ, Lent, Lent 2012, Life, lion and lamb, Mary Magdalen, obedience, pain, passion, Passiontide, redemption, sin, suffering, Tracy Ward, truth, wilderness
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Lent 2012: Day Twenty-Nine
John 10.19 Again the Jews were divided because of these words. (A suitable Bible verse I think, because of the diversity of opinion in the world, and in the lecture room. We can get along…) A morning of two theology … Continue reading
Posted in Bible (passages and study), Christianity
Tagged atheism, Bible, Christianity, diversity, Durham, empiricism, fundamentalism, John 10, Lent 2012, liberalism, time, truth, university
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Lent 2012: Day Twenty-Three
John 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. Truth… is the living force of a different reality, God himself. The key to travelling with God in his world is to grasp that it’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Bible (passages and study), Book Quotes, Christianity, Love
Tagged Alison Morgan, free, God, John 8, Lent 2012, Love, presence, The Wild Gospel, truth
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Lent 2012: Day Eighteen
Hebrews 4:9 So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God. Another passage about the Sabbath! And so now is the time to share something I thought of on Sunday, and relayed to my parish church’s assistant … Continue reading
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Tagged Enlightenment, faith, fear, Fr David Stoter, God, Hebrews 4, imminent, Kierkegaard, Latin, law, Lent 2012, Marcus Borg, Niebuhr, Putting Away Childish Things, rest, Sabbath, transcendent, trust, truth
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Lent 2012: Day Seventeen
John 7:24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgement. “We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgement as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm … Continue reading
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Tagged agape, circumcision, Eros, Gospels, Greek, healing, intimacy, Jesus Christ, John 7, judgement, Lent 2012, Marilynne Robinson, philia, Sabbath, stereotypes, storge, The Death of Adam, transcendent, truth
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Young Church
I’ve been looking back over a cartoon I found in the ChurchTimes a while ago which joked about Sunday School / Young Church / Créche. It jokes about how each week the children are really taught the same thing: be … Continue reading
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Tagged blessings, childhood, children, innocence, Jesus Christ, Luke 10, postaday2011, truth, wisdom, Young Church
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