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So who’s fasting?

So who’s fasting?

Lent, which starts tomorrow and runs to Holy Saturday, is a time for me to give up something I love, so that (a) I prove to myself that I can live without it, and more importantly (b) I can spend … Continue reading

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Let us all drink tea together

Let us all drink tea together

Last week was the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. In celebration of this, some churches held joint services. Different flavours of liturgy, types of speaker and paces of hymn were intermingled peacefully, and everyone even drunk tea and coffee together afterwards. I’m … Continue reading

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The lost

The lost

A bit of a light-hearted cartoon this week, based on a lovely little phrase you hear churches use sometimes. I started thinking, as I sat on a train one day, what a church with a “passion for the lost” might … Continue reading

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Lifting up my eyes

Lifting up my eyes

We’ve been learning a new worship song at church recently, and I quite like it. It’s a Matt Redman, for those who care about such things, and along with some fairly standard worship song lyrics and a catchy tune that … Continue reading

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