Happy Christmas to all my readers. May you have a lovely and peace-filled Christmas. Three great services to go still – Christingle and Midnight today and Christmas morning tomorrow. After such a brilliant weekend last week I’m really looking forward to the remaining ones. Just got to do the preparation for Christmas lunch (making the […]
December 24, 2011
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We would normally put these on the Church website so excuse me for putting them here on my blog (but I was having problems with doing it and our web administrator is ill and we did say to people that we would make them available to see!)
December 19, 2011
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Well the new advertising for Christmas from ChurchAds is out. It is an interesting and arresting picture. The characters portrayed are shown in modern dress
December 15, 2011
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It is fascinating to look at the Christmas story and see that actually the real Christmas story has been wrapped up in tinsel and wrapping paper and so strongly covered that we are in real danger of making the Christmas story only fit for children. Only two of the Gospels look at the birth narrative, […]
December 12, 2011
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