“Today, in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.” Luke 2:11 (NIV) During this season we will hear many words from the first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel. […]
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The Bible’s oral tradition revived with a smartphone app
The Spoken Word I can sometimes forget that when I’m reading the Bible, what I’m looking at is a translation. Not just from the original Hebrew and Greek, but from the way it was originally communicated. The historical […]
Read MoreThe Christmas Gospel – the story of Jesus wrapped up
Christmas – has it lost it’s meaning? When I was a child the autumn nights ‘drew in’, the clocks changed, the local Brownies had a Halloween party and the Scouts did a firework display. Sometime after that, and […]
Read MorePeace be with you this Easter
In the midst of all of life’s uncertainties do you find yourself asking ‘to whom should I listen?’ or ‘who should I believe, who should I trust?’ When we are in uncharted waters we long to find something […]
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One of the games that young children play at swimming lessons is ‘Wibble Wobble, wibble, wobble jelly on a plate; Wibble Wobble, wibble, wobble jelly off the plate’. They balance together on a large float that the teacher wobbles […]
Read MoreThe Nights are Fair Drawin’ in…
‘Coorie’ in Winter is dark and cold, but it does give us things that we may miss out on in the lighter summer months. We have opportunities to ‘coorie’, an ancient Scottish word describing a chance to snuggle! […]
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