Are you a friend of God?
John 15:14-15 Jesus said, “You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants for the servant does not know what his master is doing: but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.” Friends…
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One wish…
You’re cleaning out Grandma’s storeroom and find a tarnished lamp, you rub it with your sleeve and lo, a genie appears! ‘Ok,’ he says, ‘you know the drill: one wish. What’s it to be?’ ‘Only one!? But I thought I could have three!’ ‘No. One. Only one.’ ‘Oh, crikey!’ you think. ‘This is a trick-…
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A 90yr old’s wisdom to the young
Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio. “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I’ve ever written.My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more: 1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s…
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Can I Miss God’s Plan For My Life?
We recently held a Panel Service in our pm service on the topic ‘God’s Plan For My Life’. One of the questions asked was “Can I miss God’s plan for my life?” The panel answered unanimously, “Yes!” Here are a few further thoughts on how we can miss God’s plan for our life:
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Madonna con Bambino
Don and I visited many art galleries and churches while in Italy. Three most often recurring themes of paintings and sculpture were ‘The Annunciation’ ‘The Nativity’ and ‘The Crucifixion’. I came away with a far greater admiration for Mary the mother of Jesus. I wonder if she really knew what she was saying yes to…
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Gruss Gott
In Southern Germany there is a wonderful greeting: “Grüß Gött!” …
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Resilient and Residual Faith
Entering many churches in Europe, one is impacted by a sense of resilient and residual faith. It is resilient because despite generations of persecution or honour, change or rest, wars or peace, tearing down or building up, poverty or plenty… the faith of generations of Christians has endured. And it’s in the church building, that…
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Private Devotion
We visited a lot of churches on our European holiday. One thing we delighted to see was, that despite rivers of tourists coursing through the sanctuaries, ogling at the grandeur and photographing detail and vastness, the churches are still first and foremost places of worship. There were midweek services being held in side sanctuaries, people…
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How to be in your right mind.
When I’m not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
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Clear windows
George Bernard Shaw wrote, “We are the window through which we view the world. Therefore, it is best to keep ourselves clean and bright.” How true it is that grumbling, difficulties, bad relationships, gossiping, negativity…can cloud and warp our view of the world. Every event, every interaction, every attitude, every thought, affects it. …
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