Our Christmas 2018 Theme
I’ve been asked recently what the theme for Christmas this year is. Over the last few years we have knitted sheep, nativity scenes, given away angels and followed the star.
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I’ve been asked recently what the theme for Christmas this year is. Over the last few years we have knitted sheep, nativity scenes, given away angels and followed the star.
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Those of you who have ever done any bible study with me will know that I often say as a first question – what jumps out at you, what makes you go hmm? For me, in this passage, it is the interesting verb in verse 24, how to provoke one another to love and good
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There’s a relatively new Phenomenon on the telly in these days before Christmas. Have you noticed over the last few years, there has begun to be an informal competition for the most clever/touching/dramatic narrative Christmas advert? Two penguins competes with an extensive Christmas table from a budget supermarket and a chain stores marauding fairies and
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Like an innocent child wandering by itself into the kitchen and pressing the switches that will set the house on fire, some biblical texts have been taken out of their original setting and used in ways that would have horrified the original speaker or writer. Here in this passage we have one with exactly that
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Our very own Rev. David Baldwin makes an appearance on the Church of England podcast this week. “Listen to hardworking Christians working on mission and growth in rural England. To read the full rural mission and growth learning report, including helpful examples of good practice, useful ideas and approaches, resulting from the February 2018 Renewal
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The first in our ten week series on the Way of Life that we hold in common as part of the Community of the Annunciation. How do we seek to grow in knowledge? Our primary source of knowledge about God is the Bible. Reading the bible regularly is a great way to increase our knowledge
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As part of our prayer community, The Community of the Annunciation, we share a common way of life. This way of life is a framework for our spiritual development, not a set of rules to live by. As Simon Reed suggests in his book Creating Community: Ancient ways for modern churches “A Way of Life
Hot on the heels of our Think ECO Go ECO event on July 14th in Beaminster square has come the arrival of our Silver Award. The ECO Survey was completed and updated as new targets are met are part of Beaminster’s involvement as an ECO church with A Rocha. This is a global Christian organisation
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