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part time priest: October 2014

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Friday, 31 October 2014. Hallowe'en, like most cultural markings of time, is a mish-mash of the pagan, the religious and the commercial. No culture is without its customs surrounding the dead, and Hallowe'en probably goes back to the Pagan Samhain. Eventually All Saints/All Souls and Hallowe'en became fused into our modern day Hallowe'en, variously approached by Christians as a devilish celebration of all that is evil, necessitating throwing an Evange...

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part time priest: June 2015

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Saturday, 20 June 2015. The art of battling giants. Sermon for Trinity 3. But David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with sword and spear and javelin; but I come to you in the name of the. Of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. You ever feel, like me, that the church is somewhat the underdog today? We can take the template of the story and see what it can teach us, bit by bit, about 'the art of battling giants'. *.

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part time priest: November 2014

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Friday, 28 November 2014. Mark 13: Therefore, keep awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn,. Or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.’. I wonder what your relationship is with sleep. For some it’s blessed relief after the business, or busyness, of the day. It was a hot day and it was tea-time. He was si...

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part time priest: February 2015

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Sunday, 15 February 2015. Gospel, glory and veils. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. His Shekinah inhabited the Templ...

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part time priest: The art of battling giants

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Saturday, 20 June 2015. The art of battling giants. Sermon for Trinity 3. But David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with sword and spear and javelin; but I come to you in the name of the. Of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. You ever feel, like me, that the church is somewhat the underdog today? We can take the template of the story and see what it can teach us, bit by bit, about 'the art of battling giants'. *.

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part time priest: December 2014

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Wednesday, 24 December 2014. Fingers wet from the spilt juice of oranges, and encrusted with gummie bear sugar, I return from the annual Christingle making morning, thinking about sweetness and sharpness, light and dark and the mixed up sentiments of Christmas. I came straight from a funeral visit to lead an enormous Christingle service one year and it was one of the hardest things. That's why this afternoon in church, the Christingle light will be br...

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part time priest: July 2015

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Saturday, 18 July 2015. Love letter to the Body. Sermon for Trinity 7B. For he is our peace;. He has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He said to them, ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves. And rest a while. For many were coming and going, and. They had no leisure even to eat. And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick. Love Letter to the Body.

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part time priest: July 2014

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Sunday, 13 July 2014. Sheep in the fields around LLannerchwen, near Brecon. Beautiful Pembrokeshire, near Ffald y Brenin. Ffald y Brenin was utterly gorgeous, the countryside stunning and the worship in the celtic style round chapel truly uplifting. Ffald y Brenin. Wonderful worship but not silent. But it wasn't very silent. There were lots of fascinating visitors. Owever, real silence was still beckoning. As soon as I arrived in Llannerchwen and saw ...

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part time priest: April 2015

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Sunday, 26 April 2015. There's a conversation going on at the moment within the Church of England, about growth (or in other words, how to halt decline), which is proceeding along depressingly predictable lines, as reported recently in the Church Times:. Http:/ www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/17-april/news/uk/church-growth-bishop-broadbent-rounds-on-the-critics-of-reform-and-renewal. Bishop of Willesden,. The narrative of this increasingly polaris...

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part time priest: March 2015

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New posts can now be found at www.parttimepriest.com. Saturday, 28 March 2015. The subversiveness of Palm Sunday. Joseph Mawle (centre) as Jesus in BBC's The Passion, 2009. The BBC produced a two-part film called The Passion. In 2009, staring Joseph Mawle as Jesus. It traced the last events of Jesus’ life, from his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, up to the Crucifixion. Politically, it was a tense time. Judea was an occupied territory, governed by the Romans, who in their turn were trying to keep the peace.