As I was thinking about people in my life who have lived as resurrection people I was reminded of one of my favourite books Pied Piper by Neville Shute. I have been recommending it for 30 years. It is a delightful story that starts in a London club during an air raid in WWII. An [...]
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Yesterday we held a wonderful Easter celebration at the Mustard Seed House
Though the Easter season is over for those in the secular world and even for many in the church, for us it is just beginning. The 40 days of the Easter season stretch until Pentecost. As I have already mentioned this is the season [...]
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Here is the second of the morning prayers that Mark Pierson did for our conference The New Conspirators. The emphasis is on multiculturalism and the call to part of a God’s beloved community. It seemed an appropriate reflection for this season.
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Gus Row just sent me the link to these powerful images for the Stations of the Cross that they are putting on in Hamilton New Zealand. Great way to focus your meditation this week
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Holy week, the final week of Lent, commemorates the events of Christ’s last week before his death. For many of Christ’s followers it was a roller coaster ride, beginning with his triumphal entry into Jerusalem and ending with his death on the cross.
Holy week begins with Palm Sunday, and the celebration of Jesus’ entry [...]
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Palm Sunday is almost upon us and we are fast heading towards Holy Week and Easter. I am a little concerned however as to where our focus is at this time. If the traffic on my blog is anything to go by more people are interested in Stations of the Cross than anything. Lent comes [...]
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The MSA team has just been on a 2 day retreat. It was wonderful to get away to relax, refresh and to refocus our lives. The main purpose of the retreat was to brainstorm about developing an MSA rule of life. Here are some of our thoughts on where we are at [...]
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In preparation for Easter I have been reading Surprised by Hope:Rethinking Heavenm the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by NT Wright. It is one of the most inspiring books I have read for a long time. He asserts that Christianity’s most distinctive idea is bodily resurrection. Jesus was a flesh and blood person [...]
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Over the last couple of days we have been devastated yet again by the horrors of violence as we heard about the shooting at Virginia Tech University. The rhythm of violent death is one that cuts across all our lives like a bolt of lightning. The shockwaves reverberate through our society raising important [...]
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Yesterday was not a good day for me. In the morning one of our dogs got tangled up in my computer cord and managed to drag my computer across the table into my coffee cup spilling coffee all over my computer. For most of the day it was unusable. Miraculously (or so it seemed) around [...]
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