Category: Faith stuff
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New Year’s Resolution?
Our firm reslutions to do better in future don’t always last as long as we might hope.
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What is the opposite of faith?
A lot of people would say doubt. But that won’t do. There is, for sure, a kind of doubt that is entirely negative, which puts faith in jeopardy. But I suspect the main kind of doubt with which we are familiar is the kind that asks questions – and that won’t be fobbed off with unconvincing…
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A Sermon for Covenant Sunday
The annual Covenant Service is very important to the life of the Methodist Church in Britain. Here’s the sermon I intend to preach when I celebrate it in a week or two.
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Lost Christmas
Another little poem from R S Thomas
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“Blind Noel” by R.S. Thomas
The truth is, I’m not much of a lad for poetry. But something about R S Thomas always stirs me, even if I’m not sure I quite ‘get it’.
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Christmas with Wesley #2
I think this might be my favourite of Wesley’s Nativity hymns
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Christmas with Charles Wesley
The opening line would have been considered archaic even when it was written, so it isn’t suprising that this hymn was quickly revised to its more familiar version. But seeing as it’s Christmas, let’s go with the original version
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Eh Jesus? (Happy Birthday)
A Christmas sketch by Kim Fabricius
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A God Who Poops
A sermon for Christmas by Kim Fabricius