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Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Have You Got A Second?

Every day I speak with people the topic of busyness inevitably comes up. Are we becoming too busy for own good, for our own God? If we desire to see God move, if we desire to see the Spirit rekindle and relight our churches, then we need to make the first move. The first move […]

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Hi All One of the aspects of the Gospels we see again and again is that Jesus upturns the expectations in this passage “thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike ”   We need to re-recognise the need for humility in the sight of our God, […]

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Hi All Nehemiah teaches us many lessons about how communities can function when they work together shoulder to shoulder, side by side, for the common good, putting aside agendas and seeing a bigger picture. Life is like a jigsaw puzzle, we won’t know the final completion of the good work began in us until the […]

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As we approach Easter Friday Isaiah 53 which predates the death of Christ by some 800 years gives a poignant account of what the Suffering Servant must go through. The harshness of the imagery in The Passion of the Christ also should give us pause and may we take the opportunity this Easter to re-commit and […]

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  I can only but imagine the scene when Jesus tells the disciples in the Upper Room that one of them is going to betray him.  The turmoil it must of caused, the consternation, each of the disciples looking at the others sideways.  I am not sure if they picked the one who did betray […]

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We live in a world where looking after number 1 is the first priority. Jesus shows us a different way. Jesus was prepared to be a servant but still understood his rightful place as head of the table, but didn’t exploit that authority.  As we get closer to Easter Friday may we consider again the […]

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As we come into Easter Week each day I will have a poem from John 13. This powerful chapter set in the Upper Room as Jesus and the disciples celebrate Passover has many powerful messages starting with Jesus demonstrating the leadership model for the Church – that of servant leadership, one which the disciples struggled […]

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