Tag: Church of Ireland
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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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Live Because The Light Has Come (Isaiah 63:7-10)
1 What Do We Do When the Wait is Over? We have all had that season in life when we have been waiting for something to come, or perhaps even something to finish, and then it does. We find ourselves thinking, is that it or now what? The tension of waiting is that, when the…
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A City Stirred (Acts 2:1-13 | Pentecost Pt.1)
1 | The Tension of Waiting (Acts and the Acension) There are moments of waiting that affect the whole world yet are the most personal of things. In 1952, on a holiday in Kenya, a young princess, Elizabeth, was informed of the passing of her Father and her ascension to the throne. What a surreal…
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Atr Irwin 