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Faithful

August 22, 2012, Published by

Despite growing up in the North East of England, when I was growing up I was a fan of Manchester United Football Club. (I would greatly appreciate if you would continue to read this blog and bear with me as I make this statement, remembering that as Christians we confess our sins one to another.)How was it then that at the age of sixteen I was to be found with a quarter of a million other people on Roker seafront, bouncing up and down while singing a declaration of unswerving loyalty to Sunderland Association Football Club? I had always considered...
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A Brief Theology of Fear

April 18, 2012, Published by

In 1508 Michaelangelo was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the sistine chapel in Rome. Over the next four years he lay on his back atop a scaffold painting a truly huge image of God, saints and biblical scenes. At over five thousand square feet the painting is so vast that it can’t be viewed as a whole or photographed with a single shot. Michaelangelo had a grand idea of who God was and yet in all it’s grandeur we know that it can never represent the vastness of God; he painted a great big God and in doing so painted a...
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Frankly, Unworthy…

January 19, 2012, Published by

If you were to peer into my wallet, amongst the usual collection of bank cards and library cards, you’d find a fair number of loyalty cards from various coffee houses and eateries. I like it, when I pick up a drink in Pret they stamp my little card and every so often I don’t have to pay. Result. It’s a nice feeling but I do wonder if sometimes we approach God in a similar manner and, whether we express the thought or not, feel that because we pray daily, or always go to church, or serve, that we deserve to...
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Come Into My Kingdom

November 15, 2011, Published by

A number of days ago my younger sister, Elisabeth Jobes, was taken to hospital unconscious and unable to breathe. For 18 hours the medics did their utmost, some refusing to go home at the end of their shifts, opting instead to stay and help – even a whole department refused to close for the night. For an equal amount of time an ever increasing number of friends turned the waiting room and hospital corridors into a prayer centre. We took communion in the intensive care waiting room, united not by our membership of any church – four different churches were...
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