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Conversations about church: The Banquet
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Conversations as we start up a new community of believers from scratch. Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.but they all alike began to make excuses.The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house. ordered his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.'" (Luke 14:16, 18, 21 NIV). Us but didn't want to join. But who does Jesus choose? Soon as...
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Children's church: May 2012
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Children's church (Sunday School) sessions run by me at North Witney Community Church. Thank you so much for your interest in my blog posts - I never imagined that I'd have more than 24,000 unique visitors. I'm sorry I've not added more posts as I've been busy setting up the godly sexuality website and workshops for parents. I now have time to put up more sessions if you let me know what you'd value. Much love in Jesus. John. Sunday, 27 May 2012. Fruit of the Spirit - gentleness. Hence the emphasis here ...
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Conversations about church: In the beginning...
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Conversations as we start up a new community of believers from scratch. We're so far out of our comfort zone as God has called us to start a new church*. But what does the word "church" mean? The origin of the word “church” in English comes from (the Old English word "cirice" which comes from the German word " kirche". Which comes from) the Greek word “kuriakon” which literally means “house of God”. It is a purely religious word that had the meaning of “temple” or “chapel”. During our time of rest we vis...
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Godly Sexuality: Some defintions
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We were created in the image of God and so our sexuality is theographic not pornographic. We seek to restore what has been distorted by the world, bring wholeness to individuals and help parents impart a godly view of sexuality to their children. Monday, 19 January 2015. You’ll notice that we will use the word sexuality on this blog in preference to the word sex. I think this video sums it up pretty well:. The word “sex” (late 1500s) comes from the Latin sexus. Our genitals and what we do with them?
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Godly Sexuality: November 2014
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We were created in the image of God and so our sexuality is theographic not pornographic. We seek to restore what has been distorted by the world, bring wholeness to individuals and help parents impart a godly view of sexuality to their children. Wednesday, 26 November 2014. A very brief history of Christian Sexuality. What is the churches current position on sexuality and how did it end up there? It all started with Plato. He postulated that there were two separate worlds:. Jn 1:1, 14). I say this becau...
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Children's church: Fruit of the Spirit - gentleness
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Children's church (Sunday School) sessions run by me at North Witney Community Church. Thank you so much for your interest in my blog posts - I never imagined that I'd have more than 24,000 unique visitors. I'm sorry I've not added more posts as I've been busy setting up the godly sexuality website and workshops for parents. I now have time to put up more sessions if you let me know what you'd value. Much love in Jesus. John. Sunday, 27 May 2012. Fruit of the Spirit - gentleness. Hence the emphasis here ...
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Conversations about church: July 2013
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Conversations as we start up a new community of believers from scratch. Echoes of the Abrahamic journey. On 16 June 2013 we were officially "prayed out" of our old church to begin our new journey*. When I was struggling for the words to say my mentor, Roy, likened our journey to that of Abraham:. Stephen revealed more details about Abram's call when delivering his sermon to the high priest:. Relating this back to Genesis we see that this occurred before. They began the journey but then they stopped. ...