Reflection
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….Lean not on your own understanding
I had a new chess set for Christmas, my intention to start playing again in an effort to keep my mind sharp in my old age (and I can program the computer app to let me win). Then, a few days ago my not yet 5 year old granddaughter saw the chess set and asked
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From Rome to Colossae with Love
It’s early in the morning and I am sitting at my desk, curtains still closed, my study light dimmed. The curtains are closed to stop me being distracted by the outside world, though the sun has yet to appear above the horizon. Outside there are now noises as the town slowly comes to life, a
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Simplicity of Heart
Acts 2:46 Just before Christmas I started re-reading the Book of Acts, combining study with meditation on what the Book was saying to me. As I reached chapter 2, three words in verse 46 almost leapt off the page and stopped me in my tracks. Verses 46 and 47 say: “So continuing daily with one
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The Big Freeze
Two poems, Narnia and a reflection on Promise and Purpose The Big Freeze of 1963 In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,In the bleak midwinter, long ago. This is the first verse of Christina Rossetti’s poem “In The
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“Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth” (Hebrews 11:13)
The death of Archbishop Thomas Becket On the 29 December 1170, 855 years ago, Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. Quite soon people started to visit his resting place in the cathedral and his tomb became a shrine, a place of pilgrimage. People journeyed from all over England, and others travelled from Europe
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The Problem of Doubt
Smith Wigglesworth once said: “There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.” What does the Bible have to say about doubt and unbelief? James 1:5-8 talks about asking God for wisdom. It says that “if anyone lacks wisdom, he only has to
