I must make a confession: I don’t like Advent. Or – to be more precise – its liturgical aspect. Let me explain why briefly. Across the country, Christmas lights are being switched on in villages, towns and cities. Shops, with very few exceptions, are kitted out in their Christmas décor and have a tempting assortment of goodies and promotions on…
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I was looking for a story – or at least a quotation – to start this sermon in an interesting way. I flicked through numerous pages and read up on a vast number of sayings and short stories, but virtually nothing appealed to me. But it wasn’t a waste of my time. Many of those quotations gave me an insight…
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I guess you’ve come across those irritating people who use step-trackers to count their physical activities 24/7 and who talk about it at every opportunity. I’m one of those people! And I lead by example, so a couple of my friends – inspired by me – have bought their own devices and use them. Even my mum has got one,…
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While I was visiting Poland a couple of years ago, I bought a computer game. I bought it purely as an act of patriotically-driven support for the Polish maker of the game. The unopened game landed up in a drawer where it remained virtually forgotten. Since my teenage years I had always considered the playing of computer games to be…
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Every now and again I receive particular requests from people; some of them – the people, not the requests – are from my friends, some are from acquaintances, and some are from complete strangers. These people come from a variety of age-groups, backgrounds, heritages and origins… the list is pretty long. What they all have in common in this particular…