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Just As You Are
For the past five years I have been making a journey to spend the August Bank Holiday weekend at a Christian event called “David’s Tent”. I affectionately refer to it as ‘Camping with Jesus’ as it is a 72 hour worship event in a big blue tent in a field. No service or sermon but… Read more
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Included in the Fellowship of Faith
We’re in the 16th Sunday after Trinity, in the 3rd week of the season of Creationtide, a season in the annual church calendar, from 1st September to 4th October, dedicated to God as creator and sustainer of all life. The timing of the Season of Creation means it is an excellent way linking wider issues… Read more
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Parting of the Red Sea
On Sunday, we come to Exodus chapter 14 and the account of the crossing of the Red Sea. This story continues to grip people’s imaginations and its portrayal in the 1956 movie ‘The Ten Commandments’ has been viewed by millions on YouTube! In true Hollywood style, the biblical description of the wind that blew all… Read more
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Memorable Meals
What’s the best meal you’ve ever had? A wedding breakfast, a Christmas dinner, a warm Cornish pasty eaten on a cold beach as a child, Mum’s meat and potato pie? Meals stay with us, marking our lives more clearly than almost anything else, because a meal is never just food. It is memory, relationship, and… Read more
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He Called You By Name
Growing up in the 1970s, I went to school with a boy whose first name was Martin. Martin was safe, standard, and perfectly ordinary for that time and place. But one day, word got out across the playground that his middle names were Stanley Leonard. In the 1970s, that was something to be teased about!… Read more
