Saturday, November 30, 2013

How Do You Start The Story and What Does That Say? From Eternity To Here (Part 1) John 1:1-18

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Where do you start the story and what does that say? Orson Well’s classic movie ‘Citizen Kane’ starts outsides the gates. We star...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Ripe Guava, Encourgement and Kereru... Coincidence?

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There is  a Guava tree in the neighbours backyard... and the fruit is slowly fermenting on the branches. Yesterday was a particularly we...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Advent Blessing

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Last summer  I went to the Urban Vineyard Church here in Auckland, and one of the things that really spoke to me was the way they used ima...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Psalm 22 My God, My God Why Have You Aandoned Me... God Has Done It...Lament, Hope, The Cross, Us and Tust In God

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We are looking at what Philip Yancy calls the question that will not go away… where is God when it hurts? The question of evil... And ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

How Deserted lies the cIty, A Hope of REturn... A Little Look At Lamentations.

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I think I’ve bitten off more than I can chew this week. I hope not, but I fear I may have. I want to look at the whole of the book of ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

A prayer based on Psalm 5 1-3 (As a call to worship), the hymn 'Holy Holy Holy' and Walter Brueggermann's understanding or Psalms of orientation, disorientation and reorientation

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This prayer is has come out of several things... ...looking at laments in the Hebrew Scriptures ... Walter Brueggemann's wonderful cat...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Feeling Like Refuse And Finding Refuge: Psalm 31 and Trusting in God in the Face of Suffering...

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    “Where is God when it hurts?” is what Philip Yancy calls the question that will not go away.   It’s a theological question… In th...