Church Without Walls

We may never go to ‘church’ or we may attend a church service twice on Sunday, plus mid-week. But either way, is that it for the week? There are still over 100 waking hours left for Church. What about: The unexpected exchange in the street, while traffic whizzes by. A tuning-in, a gelling of minds [...]

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Come Apart

When I was a child I enjoyed playing with other boys and got up to all sorts of escapades in the surrounding fields and extensive parkland. However, a lot of the time, partly because of family circumstances, I played quite happily on my own. You could say that I was something of a loner. As [...]

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He Told Me Everything I Ever Did!

The story of Jesus’s conversation with the “Woman at the Well” has always fascinated me. It is not only an account of how Jesus can meet with us at our point of need, but also a model of how we can relate to others and pass on the love of Christ that we have received. [...]

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Whose Voice are We Listening to?

We have had so many intrusive calls from tele sales, that we signed up to a national scheme to stop them. It has really worked on the whole, but some still get through the net. The other day we had a call from an insurance company we hadn’t dealt with before. The salesman launched into [...]

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The Husband’s Challenge

Getting married was the best thing I ever did. It has brought real fulfilment and happiness, but of course it hasn’t all been married bliss. I didn’t expect it to bring to the surface all my inadequacies, failings and above all my own emotional wounds. At times it has seemed more like a battlefield and [...]

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Passing on the Comfort

There was a time when my life got out of balance. I took on so much that I was soon giving out from empty. My tank was running dry. Especially with counselling, I was relying more and more on procedure that had worked before. Whilst I was listening hour after hour, I was screaming inside, [...]

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