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Be One of the 1001 Reasons for the success of ‘Come and See’
Join us for this year’s Come and See, a retreat based on the key words ‘encounter’ ‘experience’ ‘see’ and ‘reason’. The Encounter In the first chapter of John’s gospel two disciples encounter Jesus. Before they had only heard about Him from John the Baptist, but …
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Rock climbing faith
Once a famous architect wanted to design and build a different house. Disillusioned by the suffering, wars and aimlessness of the world he saw around him, he wanted his building to reflect this. So if you entered this house you would find doors which led …
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Shaped in the Potter’s hands
Most of us study and train to be the good at something, to be top of our job where we can cope with any eventuality, situation and emergency. The danger is that we who have this readiness to cope with job, family and friends may …
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Terrorist Arrested in Damascus experiences change
There is a lot of turmoil happening in Syria at the moment. But centuries ago in Damascus a terrorist was arrested not by the police but by the Lord. Saul was a fanatic in the line of Bin Laden. Yet when He actually meets Jesus …
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7 questions about Christmas
1. Was Jesus really born on the 25th December? No he wasn’t. The date was in fact a pagan feast which celebrated the return of the ‘dying sun’ at the end of December. From then on the days would become longer. In about 354AD the …
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My Christmas Past, Present and Future
‘Don’t be such a Scrooge’. This character from Charles Dickens’ novel ‘A Christmas Carol’ seems to have been remembered more for his days as a miserable miser than his conversion to a generous man. Yet Scrooge did have a change of heart after he was …
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How do we know our religion is the right one?
People often ask this question. In our pluralistic society it nearly sounds arrogant to modern man for one faith to claim to be the truth over all the others. After, don’t all paths lead to God? Well the simple answer is no they don’t. Others …
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Halloween: Putting on the right Costume
Costumes, Halloween! Soon many will be celebrating halloween but not in any hallowed way. The word ‘hallow’ is the word for ‘holy’. In the Lord’s Prayer we say ‘Our Father who art in Heaven Hallowed (Holy) be thy Name’. In fact Halloween really means ‘All …
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It’s Seven
It’s Seven what? Seven o’clock? Seven euros? Seven friends? No! it’s a Course! But why call it Seven? Because it runs over 7 sessions? … well maybe but not really. In the Scripture the number seven symbolises completeness and fulness. And who of us is …
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The Gift of Forgiveness
As the US commemorates the 10th anniversary of the terrible events of 9/11, many survivors, the families of those killed and ordinary people still grapple with the issues of anger, forgiveness and pain. Yet many of us also go through our own internal 9/11s. Our …
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