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We worship you as God and wonder why it goes on

August 28, 2010

We worship you as God and put our trust in you
Show us who is our neighbour and help us to love them
We prayed this prayer, written and spoken by Nick Taylor, in church on Sunday, 22 August 2010. Silence between sentences gave us time to sense the weight of the words and [...]

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Where is heaven, what is it like and how do we get there? Part 3

July 11, 2010
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Who is the God who comes to us and with us, who brings heaven with God?
The full Bible answer is that God is not just a Being who sits above the heavens – or the sole creator of all things. God is the Father of the Son with the Holy Spirit. God lives, in and as community, and makes a story through God’s kind of time.

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Where is heaven, what is it like and how do we get there? Part 2

July 10, 2010
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God is the key to a workable idea of heaven. We are not looking for a place in the universe, for some special planet somewhere. We cannot place God in that way. And heaven is the place where God is, because heaven is the place God makes around God wherever God is.

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Where is heaven, what is it like and how do we get there? Part 1

June 28, 2010
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These are important questions. Not easy. There is not an obvious or simple answer – heaven is not a visible place. It is not a tourist destination, so that you could get a last minute offer and go and see. And it will get you no nearer to book a [...]

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Art by Asylum Seekers in Leeds: an Invitation to two Exhibitions

June 10, 2010

This invitation has come to me from Chris Verney, the Project Director of Integrate-Leeds. I am very glad to pass it on. In Moortown Baptist Church, we have had significant experiences with asylum seekers in recent years.

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When thick darkness covers the peoples

May 8, 2010
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A volcano erupts and a cloud spreads upon the earth; planes are grounded and people are stuck. Debts threaten national bankruptcy, and another financial meltdown; people suffer drastic cuts react in fear and anger a bank burns: people die…

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Isaiah and Martin Luther King – Hope in Exile

May 4, 2010
Haddon Willmer

Just now in church, we are exploring themes of exile and return, devastation and comfort. With the help of sermons, we are reading the profound prophetic texts of Isaiah 40-55.
These texts meant a lot to Martin Luther King and he was the kind of person in deed and word who got their message of tough hope across to many people in exile.

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The Lord’s Prayer in Galilee and Golgotha – Thoughts for Good Friday

April 7, 2010
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In the springtime of the Gospel, Jesus came into Galilee, and the people who sat in darkness saw a great light (Matt 4.16).

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What to do about BIBLE POVERTY?

March 23, 2010
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The Bible Society for over 200 years has been making the Bible available, by translation, printing, distribution. It is concerned about what it calls Bible poverty – people who may be rich in other ways but lack the Bible.

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How Not to Hear when God speaks to you: Use King Jehoiakim’s Exegetical Tool (Jeremiah 36)

March 14, 2010
Haddon Willmer

Last Sunday we heard the Parable of the Sower – the story about four kinds of soil (Luke 8.1-21). They all receive the seed in different ways with different results.

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