Day: February 9, 2020
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Failing Health
February 5th Run to God! Run from evil! Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life! (MSG) Proverbs 3:5-12 excerpt I have bucked the trend and come out as an extreme. This is not surprising. I expected this. Two and a half years ago I spoke to a good friend and mentor…
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truth & lies
Smell of ash Fills the grate Long after the fire Long after the warm It stays to remind To fill a longing hole It lies Ash has no love No happy clappy warmth It just sits Cold Smell of pine Fills the room Tall needles permeate Tall branches flourish It comes to speed up To…
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Wobble averted?
I knew it was coming but it had some nerve to appear in full regalia five minutes before the Christmas Day service. At first, I thought it was just pre-service nerves but it wasn’t – by the end of the service my confidence was in tatters and I was a puddle, muddy and blue.For a…
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unintentional hiatus
January 15th After setting myself the challenge of Wesley’s Sermons in his English I was then scuppered by technological issues. The second sermon I recorded four times and lost three of them. Over the past number of days, I have been trying to recover them, to no avail. So last night I began again and…
Asset Based Community Development meets Church 