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Tag: Church of England
Flying Free – The Way to Heaven’s Gate
Flying home to God is done most easily when you are carrying the least weight
Mark, the Multitude, and the Power of Emptiness
Mark’s Gospel can be frustrating as it seems ‘empty’ of any key teaching by Jesus. But it is out of the emptiness that a multitude is fed.
A Safe Place to Grow
Speech to General Synod on Safeguarding General Synod – 7 July 2018 Earlier this week a friend sent this tweet: ‘Church, we have got to stop introducing Safeguarding Training with comments like “Sorry, I’m afraid we have to go through the boring safeguarding stuff, it’s the rules” This is part of the problem. Friends for… Continue reading A Safe Place to Grow
A Song for Lent – Day 11 – Is ‘My Country ‘Tis of Thee’ All About Me?
National pride – like all pride – can be a good thing but when it turns to a despising of others it becoems hubris and everyone suffers.
A Song for Lent – Day 10 – Stepping up to step back
In our desire to serve God it is easy to let our light burst in to flame or to hide it. To be part of God’s Chorus Line we must seek to be harmony with each other.
A Song for Lent – Day 9 – Believing in others is easy but belief in myself is another story
If I am forever looking down at my own fallings and failings I will find it difficult to move forward. If I help others ‘look up’ perhaps I may find help myself.
A Song for Lent – Day 8 – Is God ‘people who need people’?
To Read: Click on song title to watch a video People from Funny Girl People, People who need people, Are the luckiest people in the world We’re children, needing other children And yet letting a grown-up pride Hide all the need inside Acting more like children than children Lovers are very special people They’re the… Continue reading A Song for Lent – Day 8 – Is God ‘people who need people’?
A Song for Lent – 40 Days in the West End – Day 7 – Everyone Needs a Haver Friend
Although we are all travelling heaven ward together it can be a lonely and confusing journey. If we are fortunate we seek out friends to travel with and become joureny partners for others.
A Song for Lent – Day 6 – Must bad always happen before good?
Sometimes we see that any reward is as God’s recompense for a bad past. From the beginning God knows that there is ‘something good’ in each of us.
Suffolk Vicar 