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Sermon – 7 March 2004 – Abram's line or Jesus's Brood
One of the interesting revivals in recent years has been the huge increase in people looking for their ancestors. Geneology ? family trees and all that, has never been more popular. Many people have got used to the idea that you can search for anything on the internet and use it to try to do…
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Music
I realised today that we have made some steps forward in the congregation. In a conversation with some of the musicians, the question was not whether we were going to have a special sung setting for Easter, but which one we would have, and whether or not we would have an orchestra.I also realised in…
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Benediction
Arrived home to find the cat worshipping the washing machine.The machine was almost at the end of its spin cycle. The juddering had cause the cat-food bag, which I had left on the top, to tip up. The dry cat food had emptied itself all over the top of the washing machine and was being vibrated…
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Quote
Like this quote – which has appeared somewhere on the Ship of Fools website:”We should give up the foolish task of trying to be saints and get on with the more important task of trying to be human” ? Dietrich BonhoefferQuite so, Bonhoeffer. More or less what I took 1000 more words to say in…
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29 February 2004 Sermon for Lent 1 – Temptation
How often we ask God for things that cannot be given. This morning, we read the story of Jesus going into the wilderness and being tempted by the devil. The standard way of preaching about this is to speak about our own temptation and our own wilderness moments. We liken ourselves to Jesus ? ?Oh…
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Five Sundays in February
There are five Sundays in February this year. This only happens every 28 years, I think.
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Letterbox Poison
I was disturbed to get a free lifestyle magazine through the letterbox containing a poisonous article about immigration and assylum seekers. Indeed, I was so angry about it this morning that I have been on to the Scottish Refugee Council. The sad thing was that I was only the second person to call them about…
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