Sunday, March 29, 2020
A word of life to a nation in lockdown
The people were devastated. Families, friends and neighbours had been killed by an invading army. Bodies had been abandoned, with no proper burial. Shops were shuttered; streets were emptied of life. Those who survived were in exile, and everything had changed. They could not worship in the usual places; they could not go to familiar markets or town squares; they no longer saw their friends ...
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Labels:
bodies,
fears,
hope,
life,
loneliness,
prophets,
speech,
spirit,
wilderness,
words
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Not Donald, not Boris, but you and me
In this time of global pandemic, closed borders, economic collapse, isolation, and loneliness, ordinary people like us are needed to do God’s priestly work.
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Sunday, March 15, 2020
Giving our heart to Jesus
Many years ago, I left home and went away to university. I came from a background where people talk about faith and science and politics and everything else, and perpetually wonder and ask questions. At university, I expected the same. I hooked up with the first Christian group which presented itself, but soon felt totally bewildered. I found myself in conversations I never wanted to have, in which the acceptability of women in leadership, the theory of evolution, questions of sexuality and gender, and many other issues were put under the microscope, and my position was always shown to be wrong...
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Labels:
belonging,
discipleship,
faith,
light,
love
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