A couple of weeks ago we looked at a short clip from the “Saving Jesus” series where we heard Matthew Fox say (approximately): “We need to stop our tea-cup talk about Jesus. Jesus is often presented like a Little Bo Peep with his sheep; but he was so much more than that; he was a [...]
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Sunday answers
Sunday 4th Jan 09 The congregation were asked the following question: Imagine it’s January 1st 2010 and you are looking back over 2009. What would you like to be able to say from a church point of view? …and encouraged to think of their answer like so: At Cippenham Baptist Church 2009 was the year [...]
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Legal case against God dismissed
from the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7673591.stm A US judge has thrown out a case against God, ruling that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served. The suit was launched by Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers, who said he might appeal against the ruling. He sought a permanent injunction to prevent the “death, [...]
Changing Church
Things of Importance
A church called “Solomon’s Porch” in America has, on their website, something called “Things of Importance”. It’s sort of like a Mission Statement, and it’s very interesting. Here is is: Things of Importance God Our gatherings are mostly about God. Because we believe God is to be the center of life and that God adds [...]
Sunday Mornings
An Ongoing Struggle?
(Sunday 19th October) This week our teaching was from Philippians 3. Since it was Communion, I wanted to take a more “pastoral” theme and felt led to “All I want is to know Christ ……..” However, when I looked up the context, there was our old theme again – the conflict with the received religious [...]
Sunday Mornings
Bring on the Prophets! – From Sunday 12th October
This Sunday we looked at Jesus’ words in Matthew 23. 37-39 – which comes at the end of his severe criticism of the Pharisees and Teachers of the Law. “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times have I wanted to put my arms round all [...]
