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A cashier in a bank related how in the early years of his employment he had experienced a wide range of challenges. Part of his role was to accept cash credits from all sorts of businesses and though many were easily dealt with, some were not so pleasant. These included notes paid in by fishmongers…
March 2023 Preaching Plan
Third Sunday in Lent Year A 12th March 2023 Lectionary readings: Exodus 17 v1-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5 v1-11; John 4 v5-42. Hunger and thirst. All human beings need food and water in order to survive. Our readings today speak about hunger and thirst in two senses, physical and spiritual. The people of God…
Two weeks ago I mentioned my sister’s “significant” birthday. This last weekend we all celebrated together near where she lives in Chinnor, Oxfordshire. The following morning my husband and I walked along the Ridgeway Walk and up onto the top of the Chiltern Hills. We were nearing the end of our walk and as we…
The knowledge of the holy : the attributes of God : their meaning in the Christian life by AW TozerSTL Productions, 1976 (first published in 1961) 128 pages £9 (various editions are available) AW Tozer can aptly be described as ‘a thinking man’s preacher’. He enjoyed a fruitful ministry in Chicago and Canada in the…
Lent 2 Jesus serving with gladness Based on Luke 4: 16-19 One of the great pleasures I still get out of life is meeting strangers who don’t know what I do for a living, one of my greatest desires is to be normal and be accepted in the way most other people are, rather than…
Today my husband and I are attending a wedding in Surrey. We are very excited about it and have been looking forward to it for ages. The bride is the daughter of good friends who live in Northern Ireland. It is rather a poignant occasion as she was extremely ill when she was in her teens…
From the dusty depths we looked at last week, today we are raising our gaze to the mountains. In the Old Testament, Mountains symbolise fidelity for example in Psalm 125 we read of towering mountains that cannot be shaken. Other cultures and ancient mythologies have traditions that holy mounts were sites of divine creativity and…
Thinking members of my family all told me that I should not read it, but never wanting to do as I am told and not wanting to criticise a book I had not read, I have just finished Prince Harry’s ghost-written memoir ‘Spare’. It is a sad story about a person beset by personal hurt…