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Where should the United Reformed Church send its ministers? | Love's Work
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Reflections on living into ministry. July 13, 2015. Where should the United Reformed Church send its ministers? In this post I am considering the ways in which these Synod committees could and should decide where to send (stipendiary) ministers. I have concluded that there are three broad guidelines that could be adopted: “ count the sheep. 8220;, “ follow the money. 8221; and “ deploy for mission. 8220; In addition to these three guidelines there are two constraints: “ practicable pastorates. 8220;Take ...
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Thoughts on ministry two years on | Love's Work
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Reflections on living into ministry. October 22, 2014. Thoughts on ministry two years on. Next post →. Thinking about thinking about praying. On hearing the fulfillment of Scripture. All my hope on God is founded: desperate faith and political hopelessness. 8220;Take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs”: Christian reflections on migration and refuge. Where should the United Reformed Church send its ministers? Why we might want to read about King David. On All my hope on God is founded:…. United...
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Falling into knowledge: what is the original sin? | Love's Work
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Reflections on living into ministry. March 20, 2013. Falling into knowledge: what is the original sin? Genesis is a relatively late (most scholars agree that it is a product of the period of the exile in Babylon, between 587 and around 500 BC) reflection on the relationship between the one God, creator of all that is in heaven and in earth, the created order, human beings within that order and Israel as the people chosen by God. The answer they gave was that this core reason was the departure of the peop...
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Why we might want to read about King David | Love's Work
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Reflections on living into ministry. June 2, 2015. Why we might want to read about King David. I’ve struggled to understand why this seemed like such a good idea to me and what this strange and bloody saga of intrigue, warfare, sexual misconduct and family feuding has to say to contemporary Christians in the home counties of England. This has been difficult but, in the end, very rewarding. Next post →. Thinking about thinking about praying. On hearing the fulfillment of Scripture. David Davis has demonst...
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About me | Love's Work
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Reflections on living into ministry. My name is Nick Brindley and I was born in 1962 in Yorkshire. I am minister at Potters Bar and Brookmans Park United Reformed Churches in Hertfordshire. I completed my studies in the Scottish College of the URC and the University of Edinburgh, where my MTh was in Theological Ethics, in July 2012 and became minister at these churches in September of that year. To whom the title of this blog is intended as a tribute) and worked in banking . All is vanity: against goals,...
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Thoughts on intercessory prayer | Love's Work
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Reflections on living into ministry. January 9, 2015. Thoughts on intercessory prayer. Different people will have different ideas and feelings about what is happening in intercessory prayer:. Some will have a vivid sense of addressing requests to a personal God who will listen and respond while others will struggle to imagine such a God and have more of a feeling of sending their words into the unknown;. These traditional forms can quite legitimately be used exactly as they appear but can also be adapted...
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Christians, Jews, Israel and the the Church | Love's Work
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Reflections on living into ministry. November 26, 2014. Christians, Jews, Israel and the the Church. In the year since I was there I have thought a lot about the relationship between Judaism and Christianity and a little about that between both, Zionism and the modern state of Israel. The following conclusions seem fairly secure to me:. The definitive separation of Christianity from Judaism and hence the rejection of (at least some of) the Law was a post-Apostolic development. How any of this relates to ...
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Repentance on remembrance day | Love's Work
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Reflections on living into ministry. November 8, 2014. Repentance on remembrance day. Alongside my unease as the Church as the Church, which cannot really see itself as national, remembering the losses of one nation rather than another (an unease that recognises reasons why it might properly do so) comes another. What difference does it make it the wars in which people died were or were not, to whatever degree, “just”? If so, why? Next post →. Thinking about thinking about praying. Where should the Unite...
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Reflections on living into ministry. Thoughts on intercessory prayer. January 9, 2015. Different people will have different ideas and feelings about what is happening in intercessory prayer:. Some will have a vivid sense of addressing requests to a personal God who will listen and respond while others will struggle to imagine such a God and have more of a feeling of sending their words into the unknown;. These traditional forms can quite legitimately be used exactly as they appear but can also be adapted...