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March 2011

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    Receiving compliments gracefully

    Can I ask you all something? How does one receive a compliment well? gracefully and yet not puffed up, accepting but not proud? I think this is almost harder for Christians…

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    An interventionist God? Part 3

    Third and last part of answering Phaedrus’ questions… When it comes to things like the Tsunami, we can predict with 100% accuracy that god will not intervene in anyway. Why is…

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    An interventionist God? Part 2

    Part 2 of the questions raised by Phaedrus in my previous post ‘What kind of God let’s that happen?’ Another answer is that divine intervention on such a large scale would…

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    An interventionist God? Part 1

    After my post on ‘What kind of God let’s that happen?‘ I was challenged on the purpose and effect of prayer, amongst other things. It challenged me enough to make me think…

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    The Miracle of New Life

    It never ceases to amaze me.. the miracle of life. of new birth. I have had 3 children, have copious friends with babies and I’ve seen plenty of newborn lambs as…

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    Grey hairs…

    I have been reading through the Book of Proverbs recently. I love it! There are some real gems in there and some slightly whacky stuff too!… how about this for example:…

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    Church in a school

    As part of the ‘discernment process’ (gosh they really do need to give it a catchier name don’t they…) It was suggested that I visit a local primary school where they hold…

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    Why I love the good old C of E

    There has been rather a lot of negative talk about The Church of England recently, and admittedly I have contributed to it. However I love it too and have just spent…

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    Righteous Anger… really?

    Is righteous anger really righteous? Some Christians seem to think that calling anger ‘righteous’ is a good enough reason to make anger ok, when really it is a big fat excuse so…