Tag: advent
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2A
2013 I have been thinking about light this week as I prepared my sermon for Sunday. It is the background, the filter through which all the other words came. Light was the focus, it was the illumination and it was all around. Lighting the advent candle each week brings us closer to the time of…
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Locusts for tea
2013 How did John the Baptist gather followers? Was it his stylish clothing (note to scruffy Suzie)? His aspirational lifestyle? His prosperity message? His food choices? NO There is nothing attractional about the outward appearance of John the Baptist. He wore camel hair clothes. The soft down in camel’s hair is much sought after and…
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Prayer for the season
O Lord In this time of advent, this time of waiting for arrival. Help us Lord avoid the clichés of this season. Help us Lord focus on you and not the myths surrounding Santa. Help us Lord show by the way we live our lives, that You are the only Way, the only Hope and…
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Fierce but not so proud
2013 I write about the stuff going on in my life, in my family’s life and general comment. Occasionally I just get an urge to splurge poetically. I met a guy yesterday called …. and immediately started rhyming his name with… I had to stop because I was laughing too much.Hoping that I can get…
Asset Based Community Development meets Church 