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God troubles Job

January 10, 2012 Haddon's Blog
Thumbnail image for God troubles Job This is in the Bible: the good man Job is in trouble because God will not leave him alone. Can we believe it? Can we understand it? Can we live it? Is it good for us at all?
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Reading the riots: a NEET question comes home

December 6, 2011 Haddon's Blog
Thumbnail image for Reading the riots: a NEET question comes home ‘The big question Reading the Riots leaves us with is whether, in our current fretful state, with unavoidable austerity ahead, we have the energy to invest what’s needed in family and neighbourhood and school to rescue those who think they have nothing to lose’ -The Archbishop of Canterbury
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A Nativity Play for all the congregation

October 21, 2011 Haddon's Blog
Thumbnail image for A Nativity Play for all the congregation The Birth of Jesus according to St Matthew: A Nativity Play for all the congregation. This play was written by Haddon Willmer and performed at Moortown Baptist Church at Christmas 2010. The text is available here for any church or other group to use. It is offered without charge, subject to its usual acknowledgements. We would be grateful to hear of any use made of it.
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The invitation of an old hymn

September 26, 2011 Haddon's Blog
Sing an old hymn and find treasure in an abandoned mine.
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Questions that may matter

September 25, 2011 Haddon's Blog
Reading a serious newspaper on a Saturday shows me a world where some things matter very much. On Sunday in church, that world grows strangely dim. Can that be right?
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She did what she could

August 1, 2011 Haddon's Blog
This is a dangerous article about the woman who anointed Jesus. It is dangerous because it might encourage our complacency, our comfortable faith-based mediocrities. But the best way of reducing the risk is full undefended exposure to the story
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Rebecca West goes East and discovers worship

July 8, 2011 Haddon's Blog
I was going to throw it away but I took one last look at it – something came off the page and grabbed me. Now I wonder what it means. What do you think? But, I see, you don’t know what on earth I am talking about. So let me go on a bit further…..
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Free of all envy, grace-full, unconfined

July 2, 2011 Haddon's Blog
Envy is an cruel and devious enemy of good life. How to deal with it? Envy dies when busy generosity leaves it no soil to root in.
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I will see my desire for their destruction come to my enemies

May 3, 2011 Haddon's Blog
Thumbnail image for I will see my desire for their destruction come to my enemies We live and die in a hard world of enemies, boasting, and bombs, even if we aren’t at all like bin Laden. What do we want the Lord to help us to do?
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A sermon worth keeping in mind

April 29, 2011 Haddon's Blog
Millions of words today, discussing the dress, the kiss, the future of the monarchy, and a bit about the pageantry selling Britain, but little appreciation of the words spoken in the service, which we all might take with us, ponder and treasure, as wisdom and grace and prayer for life
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