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The use of power

Jesus called the disciples together and said: You know that those foreigners who call themselves kings like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over the people they rule. But don’t act like them….

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Stay alert

Then Jesus said to the disciples, Be ready for whatever comes, dressed for action and with your lamps lit, like servants who are waiting for their master to come back from a wedding feast. When he comes and…

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Hoping for healing

As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his…

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Our deepest desires

Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have…

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Created in freedom

Do you know what the first word is that God says in the Bible? God says Let – ‘Let there be light’. And that’s not the only let in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. Here…

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Shhhh!

This is an article I’ve written for the Gloucester Citizen Do you like silence? Or do you avoid it? I’ve just been on a 3 Day silent retreat. It was in a beautiful centre in North Wales –…

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A great role model

This is the reading for the Feast Day of St Barnabas: Some of the believers who were scattered by the persecution which took place when Stephen was killed went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, telling the…

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The Pentecost explosion

We have a long reading today – but it’s a good one! When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers were gathered together in one place. Suddenly there was a noise from the sky which sounded like a…

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Being connected

Then Jesus opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “This is what is written: the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death three days later, and in his name the message about repentance and the…

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A life changing encounter

Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men…

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