Blogs

This page contains two blogs.

  • Church blog which will generally relate to the upcoming Sunday worship theme. 
  • Pastor's blog which will contain occasional blogs featuring insights, quotes or reflections.

The blogs archives can be found here.

Church Blog

April 29th

Practice Resurrection (2)

Eugene Peterson contends that Ephesians is a letter written to the church to encourage their growth in Christian maturity.  He translates 4.11-15 this way:  

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April 23rd

Practice Resurrection (1)

One starlit evening in the Highland hills of Scotland, as a lad of fourteen, John McKay a future president of Princeton Seminary, read through the letter to the Ephesians and in his words experienced a ‘boyish rapture and I made a passionate protestation to Jesus Christ among the rocks in the starlight….I saw a new world…everything was new…I had a new outlook, new experiences, new attitudes to other people.  I loved God.  Jesus Christ became the center of everything…I was really alive.’

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Pastor's Blog

April 20th

John Mark

By tradition Mark is credited with writing the Gospel bearing his name, and is first considered to be mentioned in the New Testament as the young man, wearing nothing but his nightshirt, who followed Jesus from the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus had been arrested and was being taken to the house of Annas for questioning. Mark was held by the soldiers, but slipped out of his garment and escaped naked into the night. This tradition also holds that the house with the ‘Upper Room’, in which Jesus and His disciples ate their last supper together, belonged to Mark’s parents. He would therefore probably have followed the group from his home to Gethsemane in the first place.

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March 23rd

I thank you God for most this amazing

‘I THANK YOU GOD’

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings :and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)        [ee cummings]

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