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Reading Mark 2 with Zelenskiy and the Ukrainians
A sermon preached at Moortown Baptist Church on Sunday 13th March 2022. The sermon can be watched here. I want you to know that in this talk I am aiming to tell the good news of Jesus Christ the Son of God, in company with Mark. I also want you to know that in trying…
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Reading the Bible, Searching for Faith
This was written in response to a recent article published in the New Statesman, in which Lamorna Ash reflects on reading the Bible and searching for faith. 1. My confession of faith The search for faith, in a Christian way, has been a central thread of my life. Reading the Bible, by myself and in…
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Foundational vision of the Earth
The government says its immigration policy is ‘fundamentally compassionate’. That provokes me to wonder: what is compassion? How does God show us compassion and call us to share it? Psalm 145 8-9, 13-16 pictures earth thriving in peace, as it lives under and from the compassion of God, who opens his hand and fills every creature…
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This Answers To That
Is THIS, No one is safe until everyone is safe – we applied it to the pandemic, but why not our economy? | Rowan Williams | The Guardian the answer to THAT, The Guardian view on charities and the cost of living crisis: overwhelming needs | Editorial | The Guardian? ‘THAT’ warns that ‘as more and more people struggle with…
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A talk about climate change, while there is yet time
If you dislike this sermon, blame it on this, that I have recently been reading Jeremiah and the Guardian. So I think I ought to talk about climate change, though it is difficult to do. May I do so? The IPCC recently (2018!) warned that a rise in global temperature of 1.5° above pre-industrial levels…
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Why this website?
As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. (John 9.4) I am 85 now and I can still work – if you can call what I do, ‘work’. I have enough wit and finger-agility to keep scribbling, and enough…
While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer