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                                        BETWEEN HERE AND NOW:  some thinking aloud by a preacher without a pulpit       : The living is easy?
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                                        Tuesday, 11 August 2015. The living is easy? In the last couple of weeks, we have had the usual mix of weather that goes to make up an English summer. Some days have seen blazing hot sunshine. On others, a whole lot of rain has fallen in a single day. Is now past for another year and the Ashes won back from some kind of scratch team from the southern hemisphere. In summertime, the living really does seem easy. If we carry a picture in our minds that the life that God invites us to lead is only made up of...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        BETWEEN HERE AND NOW:  some thinking aloud by a preacher without a pulpit       : Inclusion and discipleship
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                                        Wednesday, 14 August 2013. Twice this week I’ve been challenged by friends about whether the church of which I am a part maintains a right balance between being ‘inclusive’ and living a life focused upon being followers of Christ. The following are my initial (and personal) thoughts; they are open to comment and challenge. They are not official church policy nor the last word. If you think I have got it wrong, please set me right (but understand that I enjoy the rough-and-tumble of debate! The only basis...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        BETWEEN HERE AND NOW:  some thinking aloud by a preacher without a pulpit       : Death and friendship
                                        http://between-here-and-now.blogspot.com/2014/10/death-and-friendship.html
                                        Sunday, 5 October 2014. On Friday evening my sister telephoned to say that one of our childhood friends had died. He was my age. We had not kept in touch. Whole decades of his life were a mystery to me. Now gone. I am fascinated to discover how life has turned out for those with whom I grew up, went to school, studied or worked. Why will two lives rooted in the same soil grow so differently? Why – given a shared start – did their life take that turning; mine another? As it says in Psalm 16. I saw the...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        hopefulimagination: Counting Down the Days
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                                        Monday, December 12, 2011. Counting Down the Days. We seem to be constantly at war with time here in the West, there’s so little of it in the day, and so few days in the ledger for our lives. At our backs we always hear, Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. Squeeze out every drop! Well try it on for size; try tasting the inside of a tomb’. But then time’s creator would never lay himself open to such an onslaught, surely? I suppose that’s what we’re waiting to find out during Advent. But should we choose ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        hopefulimagination: Imago Dei
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                                        Wednesday, December 21, 2011. C) Simon Woodman, 2011. Thank you - that was amazing. Thu Dec 22, 08:03:00 am. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Eve of Christmas. Waiting. Fourth Week in Advent: Love. Third Week in Advent: Joy. Counting Down the Days. Second Week in Advent - Peace. Waiting as a way of life. Eugene Peterson, Run with the Horses. It was good to read the previous post about Eugene Petersons The Jesus Way . I have been nourished by another of his books called Run w. Counting Down the Days. 
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        patience – nukelearfishing
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                                        The weekday random and occasionally humorous musings of a Baptist Minister who is trying to be a free sample of Jesus and look for God in the ordinary. That moment when your computer needs to update and you need to use it… urgently. Yesterday morning I switched my computer on just before 8am and gone to get a cup of coffee. When I got back to my computer I was faced with a message that told me that Windows 10 was installing new updates and that it may take a while. I thought of an update(! I posted somet...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        hopefulimagination: December 2010
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                                        Saturday, December 25, 2010. Pause for Thought - Radio 2. This is Simon Woodman's Pause for Thought from today's Roger Royle programme on Radio 2. Reproduced on the Hopeful Imagination blog with kind permission from the BBC. You can listen again here. 30 minutes into the show. Good morning, and happy Christmas. It’s a strange day, Christmas day, isn’t it? And now it’s here, it’s arrived. So happy Christmas. And what, I wonder, will today hold? And also, we might wonder, what on earth it meant? The Canadi...