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Recently I have been receiving - directly or indirectly - comments about the worship services of a new church community which I’ve been helping to form out of four existing churches.
I knew the task of bringing these communities together would be a difficult one but these comments bring more detail to the […]
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I’ve been putting together my thoughts for a message for Sunday; I offer them here, beginning with the Scriptures:
‘But seek first [God’s] kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.’ (Matthew 6:33)
‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock […]
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‘And don’t be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God’s place for you. Live and obey and love right there.’ (1 Corinthians 7:17; The Message)
These words of Paul really caught my attention this morning. They appear to be a bridge […]
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‘Liturgy […] becomes the lifestyle of the kairotic community […] Liturgy is the life-breath of kairotic existence, the heartbeat of kairotic community.’ (Robert Mulholland in Shaped By the Word)
I want to throw around a few ideas about liturgy, a word usually associated with church service books and/or words held onto well beyond […]
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Over twenty five years of being a church leader I have been able to watch many churches in their ways of meeting. My observation is that conventional churches struggle to really meet with one another, focusing more on information and business rather than in the exploration and deepening of interpersonal connections
I […]
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One of the things I have noticed about the institutional church is that it finds it so hard to respond positively to the idea that everything that is within a person conjoins in the direction God wants their life to take, offering purpose. It’s almost as if this is anti-faith rather […]
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If you have read some of the other things I have written about how amazing God has made people to be you will know this is a passion for me. I am energised when I think of what people can contribute to making the world more human.
At the same time I can […]
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Here is a message I am working on for Sunday, beginning with the scriptures:
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good,your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within […]
