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Jesus – Still Rising
Of course, Jesus would be crucified today in our town just as He was outside Jerusalem 2000 years ago. This is the most politically incorrect week of the year that’s impossible to shrug off or ignore. It’s a showdown between the One who claimed to be the incarnation and revelation of the one true God,…
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“I Now Realize….”
“I now realize….” Cornelius was a Roman Centurion, a Gentile, not a Jew. He ate pork and never entered a synagogue. He was not one of ‘us’. Despite that fact, there came a day when he received a word from God (whom the Jews thought was ‘theirs’) instructing him to invite Simon Peter to his…
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Christmas ABC
It’s so easy to get complicated. Particularly when it comes to God. When we look up at the night sky and ponder its infinite unmeasurable enormity, the vast expanse of space….. our tiny word-search comes up empty – devoid of vocabulary to describe how a Creator could be real and behind all of that out…
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The Light that Leads Us Home
It was pitch black darkness in semi desert, undulating terrain lightly sprinkled with scrub and rocks. I was on night manoeuvres during my forced conscription to the army in 1971. We’d been at it all day and half the night and I’d never been so tired in my life. After a short break, during which…
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The Christmas Hound of Heaven
God can be a dog at times. You know how it is? Come down on Christmas morning and look under the tree. The kids are squealing with delight because their surprise gift is wriggling in a large bag with a red bow. They look inside and the exclamations of delight fill the room as the…
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Paris in the Light of Christmas
It may be of some comfort to be reminded that the Christmas story at the core of the Christian faith was rooted in hostility and cruelty. That’s precisely where and why God expressed his love for a broken world, by incarnating his Son. Christianity is not weak, and neither does it hide it’s head in…
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Paris, Remembrance Day… It’s Our Turn Now….
In the light of the horrific cowardice and barbaric tactics of ISIS in Paris the meaning and challenge of Remembrance Day comes more clearly into focus. Because I don’t carry a Kalashnikov does not mean I’m not fighting back or I’m terrified into silent acquiescence. It requires more inner fortitude to love and forgive, stand…
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Count it ALL Joy! :-)
Joy is powerful and something I definitely need to grow in. When God created joy it was a big deal. Jesus himself said that one of his greatest desires was for his disciples to know/experience joy: “Keep my commands, remain in my love… so that my joy may be in you and that your joy…
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