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Ian's blog: March 2015
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Saturday, 28 March 2015. I feel Jesus wanted this act to be grasped with joy by the whole of human kind: After all it should be simple and uncomplicated, and I feel sure it was meant to be a source of unity in discipleship; so why is it this wonderful meal together become a cause of division? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Huddersfield, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Ministry Nuts and Bolts. DIY 2 – Publishing your own church resources is really, really easy and cheap.
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Ian's blog: IT WAS ALL WORTHWHILE
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Friday, 8 May 2015. IT WAS ALL WORTHWHILE. Many horrible things happen in our world which are the cause of much suffering to human kind. Such suffering poses many problems for Christian faith. Recently, a famous celebrity athiest, on Irish television, imagined meeting God at the Pearly gates saying, "Bone cancer in children, what's that all about? Many, on asking this question conclude that either God is not all powerful, or he is not good, or God does not exist. The point C. S Lewis makes is painful...
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Ian's blog: May 2015
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Friday, 8 May 2015. IT WAS ALL WORTHWHILE. Many horrible things happen in our world which are the cause of much suffering to human kind. Such suffering poses many problems for Christian faith. Recently, a famous celebrity athiest, on Irish television, imagined meeting God at the Pearly gates saying, "Bone cancer in children, what's that all about? Many, on asking this question conclude that either God is not all powerful, or he is not good, or God does not exist. The point C. S Lewis makes is painful...
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Ian's blog: EUCHARIST
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Saturday, 28 March 2015. I feel Jesus wanted this act to be grasped with joy by the whole of human kind: After all it should be simple and uncomplicated, and I feel sure it was meant to be a source of unity in discipleship; so why is it this wonderful meal together become a cause of division? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Huddersfield, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Ministry Nuts and Bolts. DIY 2 – Publishing your own church resources is really, really easy and cheap.
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Ian's blog: May 2013
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013. The Roots of Religion - Part 1. The Cedars of Lebanon. Ancient worship, drama and religion. The sea monster rising out of the cruel sea. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Huddersfield, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. The Roots of Religion - Part 1. Ministry Nuts and Bolts. DIY 2 – Publishing your own church resources is really, really easy and cheap. A Homily for Trinity 4 – June 19th 2016. Lent – why I’m never gonna give you up. Blessed Are the Overdramatic (She Loves).
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Ian's blog: July 2013
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Tuesday, 30 July 2013. Fight the Good Fight (Christian Pacifism). Humanity appears to take war for granted. Peoples and nations make war on other peoples and nations and have done so throughout history, it all seems so inevitable as if it is part of the human make up, almost as if warfare is part of our DNA. Is it time to radically re-think the Christian position on war? Should we end the old acceptance of war? Should Pacifism be the Churches stance in the future? This changed rapidly in the time of Cons...
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Ian's blog: January 2014
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Wednesday, 22 January 2014. The act of God coming to live alongside humanity actually changes our real relationship with the Eternal One. It is not the spiritual movement by which we change our own condition, or make ourselves eligible for God to change it. It is the dawning wonder of realization that it has been changed. GOD CHANGED IT WHILE WE WERE NOT LOOKING! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Huddersfield, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Ministry Nuts and Bolts. Now that's what I'm talking about.
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Ian's blog: September 2014
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Saturday, 6 September 2014. The Apostle Peter is said to have believed, "In every nation those who are god-fearing and do what is right are acceptable to him." (Acts 10:34) - If Peter was right then what is the right motive for the Christian mission to the world? For the Christian mission to the world is to show why the message about Christ deserves to be believed and spread. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Huddersfield, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Ministry Nuts and Bolts.
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Ian's blog: December 2015
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Wednesday, 23 December 2015. The nativity stories found in the gospels of Matthew and Luke are often described these days as lovely legends which convey the truth of God visiting the earth in order to save human kind. But when I read these stories I find they are exactly the kind of thing that could easily have happened in the ancient world. I am going to take the nativity accounts found in Matthew to illustrate why I think this is so:-. KING HEROD - WAS HE GREAT OR A DESPOT? THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. Betwe...
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Ian's blog: June 2015
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Sunday, 14 June 2015. 8220;For the universe to exist as it does and allow intelligent life to exist, it requires an astonishing series of ‘coincidences’ to have occurred. Stephen Hawkings suggested that it is like a hoard of monkeys hammering away on typewriters and by pure chance eventually producing one of Shakespeare's sonnets.” (Stephen Hawkings – A Brief History of Time). Hawkings goes on to say:. If the electric charge on an electron were only slightly different, stars would be unable to burn hydro...
