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- Alison Sampson
- Writing this blog helped me survive being home with three young children. Now that they're at school and I work as a pastor, I write here less. But every now and then I put something up. Some of you like to read the sermons: mostly these days I forget to put them up. TO STAY UP TO DATE, VISIT https://sanctuarybaptist.wordpress.com/
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- Holy Gossip
- You are not defiled
- The wounded body
- The way of the cross
- The hard work and promise of love
- Look around you!
- It doesn't get better than this!
- Economies of Abundance
- Very busy, very important?
- Into the wilderness
- The healing that leads to ministry
- The gift of belonging
- Virgin
- What are we preparing for?
- The parable of the unjust economic system
- If a thing's worth doing...
- Hey kids! Come work in the garden!
- Who causes suffering when we fail to forgive?
- Salvation takes the work of many
- Wrestling with faith
- Jacob the Trickster vs the Nice Christians
- Sharing the inheritance
- From rabble to royal priesthood
- Peace be with you!
- God sees what's on the inside - and there's nothing to fear
- Rethinking Eve
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