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God Comes Near | Laurie Barber
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Skip to main content. So, God meets us (we are told) in the midst of life. Comes to any one of us, young or old, rich or poor, busy and unconcerned or not. Biblical stories stress God’s omnipresence at all times and a ‘nearer Presence’ sometimes. Ordinary lives, met, shaped and challenged by a Presence. In the great adventures of life we may find God with us. Said Ernest Shackleton as he traversed his wind-cold barren trek in Antarctica: ‘I had this enormous sense of the Presence of Another.’. In the str...
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Rural Church Partners | Laurie Barber
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Skip to main content. Rural churches have always known that they cannot survive by themselves. They very much need the support and encouragement of other local churches, and churches of the wider Association, if each one is to be faithful to its call and mandate in the respective places of ministry in which Christ has established them. Pastors, leaders and congregants today can be ‘in fellowship’ by any number of means of communication, such as phone or the World Wide Web. Pastors and leaders, as well as...
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The Gifts We May Bring | Laurie Barber
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Skip to main content. The Gifts We May Bring. What can I bring Him poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would bring a Lamb,. If I were a wise-man, I would do my part;. Yet what I can I bring Him bring my heart. The Christmas Story makes possible a new beginning for all kinds of people from all cultures and places of the earth to bring their gifts - as symbols of worship, obeisance, adoration, useful service and complex, creative wonder - to the newborn King. What can I bring Him? In the Bleak Mid Winter.
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A New Year | Laurie Barber
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Skip to main content. The Gate of the Year. Ah yes, - The Gate of the Year. It seems like another year is about to dawn upon us. A brand new year. And all of us wonder what it will bring. As in any year, we might expect to experience births and death, marriages and anniversaries, milestones that mark Life’s journey, the trek with family and friends, neighbours and through social media at least, our world. And yet . . . and so, it’s another Year. Our human distinctions and markers for time...We believe th...
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Another Year | Laurie Barber
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Skip to main content. Another year is dawning, dear Father, let it be. In working or in waiting, another year with Thee. 2015 - 2017 Laurie Barber.
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Sunny Days | Laurie Barber
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Skip to main content. Not every day is a good day. There are things we dread, to which we can never look forward, positively. There are people we dare not meet, tasks we’d rather not enter upon, travels we do not want to take. How can we move on get up and face this day? Indeed, we were never promised skies always blue, or a rose-garden (at least ideally: one without thorns.). Dark threads and bright ones are tangled together in the tapestry of life. We usually see only the tangles, and knots, the en...
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Barber of Fressingfield, Suffolk | Laurie Barber
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Skip to main content. Barber of Fressingfield, Suffolk. Ancient Land Record Witnesses. The following information about the Barber Family of Fressingfield, Suffolk, England is gathered from. The Bohun of Fressingfield Cartulary. Edited by Bridget Welss-Furry in the series Suffolk Charters XIX. Bohun kept track of the transfers of various lands (and related families) in Fressingfield, many of them about his own family, but also including other ‘prominent’ families of the area. I am fascinated by the fact t...
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Trending | Laurie Barber
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Skip to main content. In a worship service I attended, we came to the time for the reading of the Scripture. Read more about Beyond Worship Lite. A Shepherd We Have. In our everyday, but especially in some of the most taxing and excruciating times and experiences of life, there is One who is Present, who cares, leading and guiding, nourishing and providing - wi. Read more about A Shepherd We Have. Read more about Beauty. The picture is of my mother's father, Ernest Hayes Almas (1900-1938). The following ...
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Not Be Shaken | Laurie Barber
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Skip to main content. Being a Person of Faith. A life of trust in God is a beautiful life. The effects and blessings are palpable; others cannot help but notice. It's not selfish to have a personal relationship with the Deity, for the social and corporate ripples will spread to touch and bless the lives of others. How Long, God? 2015 - 2017 Laurie Barber.
