Tag: Bible
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The Humility and Hope Born of Praise in Every Season (Psalm 33)
What are we to do when things change? When things that once were are no longer, when normal becomes a memory, and when the things that we have gotten used to become things we miss and long for? It can be hard to know how to respond when the unexpected becomes real before us and…
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Finding Your Voice in a World of Whisiper (Acts 17:22-31)
That we might speak so the world can know
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Underneath the Mango Tree (Acts 2:42-47)
Simple Faith: Under the Mango Tree I remember hearing about a small Christian Church that was gathering under a mango tree. They meet there faithfully every Sunday as their minister gathers them for worship, and the children meet under a different tree just on the other side of the same plot of land. When it…
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Who Are You Looking For? ( John 20:1–18)
If you could pick one word to describe our world, what would it be? Many options come to mind—purpose, identity, politics, tribe. You could make a case for any of these as defining our present moment or how we relate to the world. But none fully capture it. As I reflected on this passage for…
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From Plagues to Covenant (Hope in The Exodus)
Freedom Formed by God’s Story 1. Introduction — Freedom Is Only the Beginning In 2009, I was travelling for the first time out of the UK/Ireland, by myself with a team, to Senegal. From start to finish over those two weeks, it was one of the most formative times of my life—the constant experience of…
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Present but Absent: Who Is the Parish For?
Many Church of Ireland parishes remain physically present in deprived urban areas while becoming socially and missionally distant from the people around them. Focusing on North Belfast, this article asks whether the parish can recover a clearer, more credible presence in the communities it is called to serve.
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Atr Irwin 