Tag: Church of Ireland
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This Is Our Call to Our Home (Matthew 10:1-8)
Sent with the Mercy and Message of the Kingdom Last week, as we opened up the first half of this passage, we thought together about what it means to call this place that becomes home for each of us. Not just as a city we live near, or a parish we drive into, or streets…
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This is Our Home (Matthew 9:35-38)
Seeing the City with the Compassion of Christ Introduction I love our city, and over the past four years, as I have served in this Church and parish, I can honestly say I have only grown to love our city even more as a city I studied in began to feel like home, and the…
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1 | Grace in the Wilderness and For the Wilderness | Matthew 4: 1-11
I wonder: if you were asked what some of the challenges the Church faces in our context are, what would you say? The answer would depend a lot on our background and our desire for our own lives. We might say: declining numbers, a loss of tradition, a lack of confidence, among other things. Then,…
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Restoring the Centre: Grace as Our First Priority (Ezekiel 36:22-38)
1. What is it All About (Introduction) Every Wednesday night, we have bible study at church, and I have to confess that as I went down this week, I was not really in the mood for it or feeling prepared. I would go so far as to say I was not sure I even wanted…
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Strangers Chosen and Sent into a Stranger World (1 Peter 1:1-2)
1 Everything Has Changed: Nothing Had Changed (Introduction) Before Christmas, I was able to go over to the Lyric theatre and see a telling of that world-famous work, A Christmas Carol. It was absolutely fantastic, but one of the things I loved about it was how they had set it in Belfast all those years…
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Atr Irwin 