Checking-in at Church
Pastor Keith Anderson recently blogged about his church’s new practice of putting up a slide on his church’s screen encouraging people to post on different social networking platforms that they are at church. What this is encouraging is making church, our Christian disciplines, an ordinary part of our regular lives just like you update on
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But Wait, There’s More!
As I indicated, the Creed at Nicaea concluded “We believe in the Holy Spirit”. Full stop. So what we recite in church (if you do recite), although we call it the “Nicene Creed” – it isn’t. Tradition has that at the Second Ecumenical Council, held in Constantinople in 381, the Nicene Creed was expanded: “And
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Follow Lesus
What has the world come to if the Vatican cannot spell the name of the Saviour! [No, check the date, this is not one of my annual April Fools’ Day posts]. 6000 bronze, silver, and gold medallion coins have been minted with Jesus’ name as “Lesus”. No – I could not have made this up!
Intercession
I recently read about a parish where the staff, once a week, read out prayerfully, from the parish directory, a list of about twenty families. This is great. And I in no way want to denigrate this – quite the opposite. The reporting had an element of surprise – even from the experienced priest –
Gloria
Glory to God in the highest, and peace to God’s people on earth. Gloria in excelsis Deo is one of the oldest Christian hymns still sung. In the East it forms part of the Office. In the West it was traditionally used early in the Eucharistic liturgy – just prior to the collect. That’s the
Prayerful Priests?
One of the sadder moments for me at the recent diocesan synod was communion time at the synod Eucharist. While I and others were going to receive communion, clusters of people, particularly clergy, were sitting around and chatting. We regularly see complaints about the Sign of Peace interrupting worship and degenerating to a catch-up time.
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I believe in the Holy Spirit
scripture readings I believe in the Holy Spirit. I have a significant announcement to make: I can levitate. In fact I am levitating now. You are not touching anything. You are not touching the chair you are sitting on. If you think of yourself as a pile of particles you might think that the particles
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