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The One About Being Connected
We went for a walk yesterday and for reasons that only they fully understand, my girls decided to tie themselves together with loom bands. Connecting themselves to one another didn’t make walking along easier but it certainly did make becoming separated impossible … Continue reading
Posted in church, consumerism, Faith, Life experiences, Loving one another
Tagged consumerism, Do you love the church?, don't give up the habit of meeting together, forgiveness, If you want to go fast go alone If you want to go far go together African Proverb, love one another, love one another as I have loved you, one anothering, traveling together, we not me, working together, you cannot be a disciple alone
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A Creative Communion Service Inspired by John 8.1-12
At the end of our service last Sunday, our Communion table looked like this. We started the service thinking about the parable of the lost sheep (Luke 15.1-7). We watched a short video animation of the story (see below) and then … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, Being honest about our faith, creative communication, Faith, forgiveness, freedom, grace, salvation, Saved by Jesus
Tagged communion, creative communication, creative prayer, forgiveness, go and sin no more, God has forgiven us, grace of God, Jesus let go of his opportunity to be rescued so that he could rescue us, Jesus rescuer, john 8, lost sheep, Prayer station, saved by grace, Saved by Jesus, saved from sin, woman caught in adultery, you alone can rescue
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The One About the Slippery Slope
Have you ever wondered how Judas the disciple of Jesus become Judas the betrayer of Jesus? It’s quite a change to go from a loyal follower of Jesus to become the person who started the chain of events that led to his arrest, … Continue reading
Posted in change, Faith, forgiveness, freedom
Tagged break the cycle of negativity, forgiveness, freedom, freedom from negative thoughts, if you think you are standing firm be careful you don't fall, judas betrayed Jesus, mouth speaks what heart is full of, negativity is destructive, pour our your hearts, responding to negativity, seeing past the negative, smedes forgiveness, To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you, Why did Judas betray Jesus
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The one about Jeremy Clarkson
So, Jeremy is not having his contract renewed. The odd thing is that some people think that he should. Over 1 million people have signed a petition calling for the Top Gear star to be reinstated with no consequences or even … Continue reading
Posted in Everyone is valuable, Faith, forgiveness, freedom, hope, Life experiences, Loving one another
Tagged actions have consequences, being open to change, everyone can change, forgiveness, go and sin no more, God hates injustice, i am a dinosaur, Jeremy Clarkson, Jeremy Clarkson sacked, john 8, justice, let god change you, pray for victims, top gear, woman caught in adultery, woman caught in adultery rewritten
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Don’t let worries kill you, let the church help
I love this picture. It makes me laugh every time I see it but it also makes me sad because it can be true. Gandhi said: I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, Faith, funny, Loving one another, stress
Tagged do not judge, Don’t let worries kill you let the church help, forgiveness, peace, stress
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The one where I had to say sorry
I recently discovered that we had used an image on some publicity that belonged to a national organisation. A representative of that organisation contacted us and was clearly not happy. My colleague who took the call passed on the message with … Continue reading
Faster, fighting and forgiveness
I recently watched the film ‘Faster’ starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson as ‘the Driver’. He is released from prison and sets about finding and killing the people who killed his brother. An assassin is sent to stop him and there … Continue reading
Posted in change, film, forgiveness
Tagged Dwayne Johnson, Faster, forgiveness, freedom, revenge, The good the bad and the ugly, The rock
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Forgiveness sets us free
I recently talked at a local secondary school assembly about forgiveness. I used some clips from the film spiderman 3 to help think about why I think forgiveness is important. In the film, Peter finds out that the man who … Continue reading
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