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In the Name of Julie

Transaction completed, thanks all round, we walked out of New World thinking that everything had worked out so well. Julie’s name really did make all the difference! It obviously carried authority. To use it was to get results … [To read more, click on title]

A Table of Plenty

‘Compassion fatigue’ is an expression that has come into vogue in recent decades. It must be associated with the development of media and communications which enable us to see tragedies in the world in real time. We can sit and watch the news … the sea of refugees trying to find a safe home, the horrors of war, the hopelessness of families in weather-beaten places. Coupled with this, we are beset with appeals through the post, on the phone and by direct advertising from a plethora of charities, all of which are eminently worthy of support … [To read more, click on title]

Easter is now!

Easter Day … we are picking up the excitement of the Resurrection.

“The original disciples were shocked into bliss by the Resurrection – and they never recovered.” (the late Sebastian Moore) …
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If we’ve been moved by the accounts of those characters through Lent, how are we moved by the Resurrection? Shocked into bliss?

Luke, Fishing and Waitangi

I love the idea of Jesus, desperate for a little space from which to speak to the crowds pressing upon him, just commandeering Simon’s boat.
And I love that Peter just lets him. I mean, he’d been fishing all night and probably wanted to finish cleaning up and get home to bed. But he takes Jesus out anyway. [To read more, click on title]