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Weekly Email w/b 13th March 2023
This last few weeks quite a few of us have been using the “Dust and Glory” resources, available in the booklets / apps / smart speakers etc as well as at Six o’clock live. I...
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Weekly Email w/b 27th February 2023
A few weeks ago, at Holy Trinity Belle Vue, Peter Madley prayed about the warmth of the sun bringing life to bulbs buried deep within the soil, and asked God that the warmth of the...
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Weekly Email w/b 20th February 2023
“Vicar talks about failure.” I’m very aware that we might be here a long time, with long lists of parental mistakes I have made, online bloopers I have committed, or the many messes I have...
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Weekly Email w/b 13th February 2023
What’s your story? Recently, being confined to the house with COVID, I picked up a book I had been given at Christmas. I could claim it was a theology book – aren’t we supposed to...
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Weekly Email w/b 6th February 2023
“The scenes from this disaster are heartbreaking.” So wrote the CEO of Christian Aid a couple of days ago, speaking of the aftermath of the earthquake in Turkey and NW Syria. It’s not easy to...
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Weekly Email w/b 30th January 2023
When I was a teenager, I took part in a production of King Lear. A moving play with some remarkable lines. One of which is still imprinted in my memory: “See better Lear“. A theme...
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Weekly Email w/b 23rd January 2023
One of my favourite TV programmes is The Apprentice, where a group of entrepreneurs compete in weekly tasks to win £250K and to be Lord Alan Sugar’s business partner. Last week the task was about...
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Weekly Email w/b 16th January 2023
As I drove home on Monday evening I heard on the radio that it was “Blue Monday”. Have you heard about this? Somebody (with perhaps too much time on their hands) calculated that a combination...
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Weekly Email w/b 9th January 2023
Last Sunday night, Phil began our ‘Love Actually’ series reflecting on those amazing verses from 1 Corinthians 13 that tell us what love looks like. This week we’ll be thinking about friendship, and I’ve been...