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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: May 2015
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Sunday, 10 May 2015. Alchemy: The Transforming God 2. The refiner’s fire. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness. Malachi 3.3 NIV]. Remove the dross from the silver, and a silversmith can produce a vessel. And that divine magic involves:. There’s something about the pain and cost of being refined by God̵...
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: August 2014
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Tuesday, 5 August 2014. Running for gold or running for God? I've never been particularly competitive, except against myself, and I didn't stand a chance of getting into the school football team in 1960s Brazil. My sports have always been solitary, first cycling, and now - because the Fens are too flat for interesting cycling - running. It gives me the silence I crave in a word-weary world, and I am resolved never to run with headphones in my ears. It enab...
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: October 2014
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Monday, 27 October 2014. The harrowing of hell. The harrowing of hell. The expansion of the latter suggestion dates back to the Book of the Watchers, a 3. Century Shepherd of Hermas,. One of the so-called Apostolic Fathers and in the apocryphal Gospel of Peter and Odes of Solomon. Underlying both traditions is the Christological theme of the victory of Christ, and his Lordship over all that is above the earth, on the earth, and under the earth. In summary,...
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: April 2012
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Friday, 27 April 2012. The first big miracle in the life of the early church happened, it seems, almost by accident. The lame man at the Beautiful Gate, begging for alms, called out to Peter and John as he had called out so many times before, probably without even looking up. You can read all about it, as they say, in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 3! The amazed crowd gathered like flies to the honey pot, but Peter has learnt his lesson well at the feet...
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: The apostle is distressed, and what he does about it
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Friday, 26 September 2014. The apostle is distressed, and what he does about it. Three thoughts on Paul's Athens experience. Paul in Athens is faced with two dilemmas: how to capture the attention of the chattering classes, and how to retain it in the face of many competing – and often superficially more attractive – philosophies. Here’s how he does it. By being distressed at idolatry. By being able to talk the languages of the age. View my complete profile.
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: October 2012
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Wednesday, 17 October 2012. The Simeon Centre and its vision. The energy of a centre for prayer comes from a listening ear, an obedient heart, and a driving passion to rediscover daily what it means to be friends with God. And to help others who cross our threshold to do the same. Over the past five years, since our launch, this has been our constant focus. In resourcing the wider church through offering spiritual direction, particularly to church leaders;...
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: May 2012
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Thursday, 31 May 2012. God needs energetic Christians! One of the ways in which I play with scripture is to summarize a chapter around a key theme; then I’m more likely to engage with it, and to remember it. Here’s an effort from some years ago preached in an Oxfordshire village, and now turned into a blog from my notes! We are to love one another as brothers and sisters. The presence of God. There is. This is expanded in the third point, to our care for p...
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: January 2014
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Thursday, 23 January 2014. Do we carry spare flasks of oil? One of our students preached a thought-provoking three minute sermon in Ridley Hall this morning. And I'm grateful that she's allowed us to publish it. She says, s. 8221; He was going around the house checking all the fuses in the plugs! 2 days later he died. As Matthew tells us “ Keep awake therefore for you know neither the day nor the hour.”. In theological College we spend a lot of time focusi...
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: Sharing my body, my soul, my store - a monumental hopeI
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Sunday, 19 October 2014. Sharing my body, my soul, my store - a monumental hopeI. There is a monument in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary [! At Harlton in Cambridgeshire to a saint of God, Thomas Fryer. The details are easily accessed elsewhere. And there is a picture of the monument below. What particularly caught my eye was the English poem that commends Thomas' piety:. Incloisterd in these piles of stone. View my complete profile.
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life: January 2015
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Simeon Centre for Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Friday, 30 January 2015. 1 Corinthians 11 and long red hair. Rejoice in your womanhood, or in your manhood. A healthy Christian community needs us all, with our distinctions, and not with some bland aspiration to neutral sameness. Paul has his views on the position of men and women in the created order, but even he recognizes that in the new order, ‘in the Lord, woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman.’ We are, in Christ...
