Author: nickjones2011
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Service Time Changes
Here’s the recent letter that went out with our most recent term card: As I’m sure you all know, one of the challenges in our group of parishes is for the Rector to try and be with all the parishes every week. I’ve been trying to come up with a way for me to be…
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Latest from Samburu Mission Trip
Here’s a great video from our Crosslinks mission partners Gerald and Louise in Kenya, great to see their holiday club and to see Louise’s language skills! Please pray for fruit from this recent trip. <div class="sqs-video-wrapper" data-provider-name="" data-html="”>
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What do you actually do in a “Bible Study”?!
Sometimes fear of the unknown keeps us away from something. Tonight we have a Bible Study at the Rectory at 8pm and I wonder if sometimes people are unsure about what happens in a Bible Study. People start to arrive about 8pm and we have tea and coffee and cake. After that the leader of…
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Prayer for those sitting exams
Heavenly Father, we pray for those sitting the Junior Cert and Leaving Cert, especially those known to us. Please help them to face their exams with peace, confidence, and courage, with wisdom, faithfulness and honesty; that they may do justice both to themselves and their teachers. We pray especially for those who are leaving school,…
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Hearing Jesus Speak into your Sorrow – Book Review
Nancy Gutherie is no stranger to sorrow, she has done what none of us should have to do – bury a child, and she has had to do it twice. Her daughter Hope lived just 199 days and her son Gabriel lived only 183 days. I have just finished her book “Hearing Jesus Speak into…
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What about the 8th Amendment?
Here’s a helpful video answering some tough questions: <div class="sqs-video-wrapper" data-provider-name="YouTube" data-html="”>
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Stuck? A book review of “Unstuck”
We all get stuck in different ways, I confess I’m stuck right now! Matt Perman’s new book “Unstuck” doesn’t promise that you will never get stuck again, but does offer lots of advice for what to do when you are stuck, and offers ways to avoid getting stuck in the first place. I had previously…
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Darkness in the middle of the day
This time almost 2000 years ago it went dark in the middle of the day (from 12pm to 3pm). It was as Jesus was dying on the cross. Why did this happen? Darkness in the Bible often is a sign of God’s judgment (e.g. Exodus 10:21-29), but who was God judging at the cross? Who…
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How does God answer prayer?
The Pain of Childlessness Hannah had been childless for years and it was deeply painful, what made matters worse was that her husband had 2 wives and the other wife (Peninnah) was reproducing like a rabbit and was teasing and provoking Hannah. Hannah was upset, so upset that she couldn’t even eat. (1 Samuel 1)…
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Mother’s Day is hard for some, we want to stand with you
For many years I found Mothering Sunday difficult, and I have to admit, I stayed away from church, how could I go to church and watch people give out flowers to their mums when my mum was not here anymore? For others, it’s difficult for different reasons, some have lost children, some have never been…
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