By any measure, the first Christmas was a public relations disaster. It couldn’t have been managed much worse. None of the important people where there. There was no Roman emperor or Greek philosopher, not even an oracle. Instead there were a bunch of shepherds, a carpenter and his fiancée. To top it off, Jesus wasn’t […]
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Back in the seventies we lived in a single storey wooden house on a ¼ acre section. It was just like everyone else’s in our street, and in most parts of New Zealand. It wasn’t until we lived in the UK that I experienced people living in rows of identical terraced houses. If you were […]
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Fill my words and this night with the light of your love. In Jesus’ name. Tonight we heard again those majestic words from John’s Gospel: The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has never overcome it. At 5pm today we had our wonderful children’s service. I’ve have been involved in putting together lots […]
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There are those who are good with directions and then there are those that aren’t. I’m one of the latter group. I have been known to lose my way at night when looking for the convenience, but this has as much to do with not having my glasses on as with my directionality. What always […]
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