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Random thoughts from a Methodist minister in inner city London. Customer service →. Hymn of the week: To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise. September 19, 2014. Like it or loathe it, harvest festival season is upon us. I have already written in a previous post about the wonderfully eccentric Revd Hawker. Which brings us to the Hymn of the Week. It’s one of the traditional harvest hymns which we will be singing on Sunday. I’m a bit surprised that it made the cut to. To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise’ wa...
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Random thoughts from a Methodist minister in inner city London. Author Archives: Holloway Rev. Paul Weary is a Methodist minister living and working in Holloway, North London. May 4, 2015. My teenage years were spent in Kingston-upon-Thames, where my father was minister of the Methodist Church in the town. I don’t often go back to Kingston; it’s a nice enough place to visit, but when we were living in North … Continue reading →. Come, all you people! March 23, 2015. Uyai mose, tinamate Mwari! O God, you ...
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Harvest Festival | hollowayrev
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Random thoughts from a Methodist minister in inner city London. Sermon: Who is the greatest? Hymn of the Week: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath →. October 5, 2012. A short address on the meaning of Harvest Festival that I have used, with variations, at fellowship meetings and similar occasions over the years. Harvest festival display, Camden Town Methodist Church. Sometimes he prostrated himself flat on his face on the floor, his arms outstretched. The floor of his church was none too clean eit...
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Random thoughts from a Methodist minister in inner city London. Hymn of the week: To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise. Come, all you people! March 13, 2015. As I thanked her for her assistance, she said “Next time you’ll know what to do.” Use the counter? I wonder whether they will let me suggest that I preferred the experience of a two minute transaction with a human being rather than five minutes wading through menus and options on a machine? I just found out that officially this is a ‘Self Service Ki...
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The Kneeler: October 2010
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Thursday, October 28, 2010. Good morning God,. A very distressing and disturbed night. I have been following and participating in a blogged debate. On the Church's report on Justice for Israel Palestine and the bizarre threat of one Methodist to take the Church to court over its contents. There can be no doubt that the report has raised some emotive issues, but that is no excuse for the appalling lack of grace in some of the posts.When Christians slander one another, evil flourishes. It is time to put th...
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The Kneeler: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Good day God,. I'm not quite sure how you will take this - but - well - I'm not quite sure anymore what a Methodist vocation is. I thought I knew. Now I'm flummoxed (I like that word! But the 'Church' bit gets harder every year. I keep saying to myself - ignore the Connexion - just get on with the task of being a minister where you have been stationed. but it's just not that simple. What we do at Connexional level SHOULD affect what we do at local level. The fact is that I am em...
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The Kneeler: Strategic Service?
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Good afternoon God,. But when the life of your Church is determined by adherence to strategy as the best or only proper means of achieving priorities, it is evident that there is an even greater disruption of the means of grace. Faith and Order – both are needed – Law and Grace together enable your kingdom to flourish – but surely, God, in your Church, final authority should lie with the Spiritual leader, not with the strategic manager? What would be the difference? I am concerned...
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The Kneeler: Christian Conferring and misplaced loyalty.
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Sunday, June 26, 2011. Christian Conferring and misplaced loyalty. Good morning God,. The problem is that few people realize that the theology and doctrines of the Church are not just carried by the 'God bits' or 'Scriptural content' of what we write, debate and agree upon. There is as much, if not more theology in our so called governance, our structures and budgets, 'strategies' and management. It is not 'disloyal' to disagree - it is not disloyal to critique what is set before us, it is not disloyal t...
