We all want justice, but few of us want to be judged.
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The wonder and curiosity of a child. — May we never lose it.
There’s so much ‘out there’ to see, to examine and explore, at which to marvel -
and give thanks.
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I-Phone has a neat little application available to it, called Prisma.
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So, perhaps we're angry with such a question: - 'What if there's a God and God expects something of you and me?'
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There's lots that's wrong with the world, as well as - well, the opposite, right?
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Someone has said - ‘The trouble with being an atheist is that there’s No-One to Thank!’
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Followers of Jesus have the potential of - through prayer, pulling into the created world and order of things, an even greater Real - of the fullness of Life in what Jesus called God's Kingdom.
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The Milky Way is our 'galactic home.'
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I Love This Time of Year !!!I love the colours of Autumn; I hate the fact that they fall and disappear. I can get depressed in November, when the colour's gone and it's not yet Christmas.
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“Teach us to number our days that we might apply our hearts unto wisdom.” – Psalm 90: 12
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Now here’s a thought: - God’s Presence in our lives can be known, appreciated and responded to, as we pay attention to all the various ways God speaks and shows God’s-Self to us, in our every day.
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I have visited various places in the world, and accumulated thousands of photographs and movies.
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The Christian heresies spring from the fact that man does not take seriously the known ground of divine immanence in Jesus Christ, so that from its revelation, instead of apprehending Jesus Christ
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Some musing about the 'big mess' that we sometimes find our world, and our own lives, to be in.
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George F. MacLeod, founder of the Iona Community, wrote many wonderful prayers.
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Here is my father’s mother - Alice Annie Green standing by the graves of her grandparents, in England in 1896.
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The nature of God is Being.
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Just to be present feels like we’re not accomplishing anything at all. Think of a Funeral Home visitation with the bereaved who've lost a loved one who's life too you've known and shared.
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Might this mean that some who think they are doing theology, aren't? - not really doing it unless it's true Scripture-mining that is led and enabled by God's Spirit.
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We know that there are certain realities in being missionaries.
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Each summer flies by - too quickly. I love the Seasons and in one sense welcome and farewell them as they come and go. But Summer's parting leaves one especially whistful.
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God’s Presence and Power is very near and He is setting to right people, places and things.
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The Church is not the Kingdom of God but its concerns are just as wide as the Kingdom - i.e. its being comprised of ambassadors and agents of God in the restortion of all Creation.
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Loren Mead wrote In his book, The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier - "The dilemma of the church in this transitional time is that the s
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Sometimes the ‘lights along the shore’ are not lighthouses, per se, but places of quiet and refuge where one simply takes time to watch the setting sun and linger into the dark, comforted with the
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The world seems to be in constant pain, writhing, suffering, longing for release.
It might be our memories of that awful day in 2001 - 9/11.
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Relationships take time. Experience on experience, Days to months to years.
Investing, spending, building, growing, Some relationships become primary. Perhaps we’re not looking.
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I've always admired the inspired life of pastor, teacher, author of 35 books and of the Bible-paraphrase: 'The Message' - Eugene Peterson.
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