Seeking God for Beginners
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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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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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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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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Home Is Where Your Heart Is
As Lent draws close to an end, we are posting the story of the Prodigal Son retold. This parable reveals God’s heart for us each one of us like no other and summarises the Good News in an incredible way. The original text is found …
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Less Noise More Love
Why ‘Less Noise, More Love’ (Come and See) and ‘Don’t Get Left out Forever’ (Ezercizzi)? The themes of our two major events for this Lent, the ‘Come and See’ open Lenten retreat and the Ezercizzi Lenten sermons, are very relevant to our lives. Truth is …
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Big Brother
It seemed strange but already an hour had passed and my elder brother was nowhere in sight. The party was already in full swing and all the familiar faces were there including Mr Daniel from next door. Everybody was drinking, eating the fattened calf and happily dancing …
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Homecoming
And as he ran to me, he took me into his arms, held my head to his chest, kissed me and cried ‘My son, my son, how I’ve waited for this day’. Turning to all the villagers who by now had followed him to the …
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