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Jul 16, 20202 min read
Pastor's Pen 19th July 2020 - Music to accompany the trimming of cabbages...
In 1982, when I was fifteen, my mother landed me the job of after-school produce assistant at Foodtown, Howick. Because she was a...
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Jul 8, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen 12th July 2020 - Looking back, looking forward...
The news media advises of the passing of Garth Gilmour, prolific journalist and author, on June 25th, aged 94. Garth caught the jogging...
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Jun 30, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen 5th July 2020 - Imagine
Henry Ward Beecher, 19th Century American preacher and journalist said; "The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be...
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Jun 25, 20202 min read
Pastor's pen 28th June 2020 - Innovate
Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash Clearly, in a global sense, we are far from being 'Post-Covid.' The desire to open borders more...
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Jun 17, 20203 min read
The human factor - pastor's pen 21st June 2020
I guess I have a contrarian streak. The jury is out on whether it has served me well over the years. I drink the tart wine of skepticism...
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Jun 11, 20202 min read
Pastor's Pen 14th June 2020 - Silence
Silence and inactivity unsettle us. Not everyone, essential workers were busier, but some of us had a period of quiet in alert level 4...
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Jun 5, 20203 min read
Pastor's pen 7th June 2020 - Why we need John the Revelator...
On Sunday before my sermon we played a version of John the Revelator by Blind Willie Johnston, composed in 1930. I'd hoped to show you...
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May 28, 20202 min read
Come Holy Spirit - pastor's pen for 31st May 2020
I've tried not to kick against the constraints of lock-down levels 2 to 4 and back down again. I prefer to see them as a space into which...
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May 22, 20202 min read
Word - Pastor's pen for 24th May
I think we can all agree the teaching and insight we received from Bruce and Jenny Eirena at our previous Sunday zoom church was most...
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May 12, 20202 min read
Pastor's Pen 17th May 2020 - next level
Today I said in the hearing of others; 'I'm so glad I wasn't confined to a small apartment in Spain (or similar) during lock-down.' To be...
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May 12, 20201 min read
May is Missions Month
May is missions month in the life of FHPC. so in the online church environment, we're doing what we can to engage speakers working both...
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May 9, 20203 min read
Come, all you who are thirsty...
In the last week or two of lock-down, a number of people have been expressing through social media or in phone conversations that they...
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Apr 29, 20203 min read
Pastor's Pen 3rd May - next level
Having been deprived of takeaways for weeks and weeks (first world problems) it seems a lot of folk were prepared to queue for long...
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Apr 25, 20202 min read
Pastor's Pen 26th April - hot or cold?
Our teaching this week brings us us to the seventh and last of the churches found in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, Laodicea. It's that...
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Apr 14, 20203 min read
Pastor's Pen 19th April - Post-Easter reflections
This year the lead in to Easter contained many distractions, not least of which was the looming concerns about the Coronavirus pandemic....
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Apr 9, 20202 min read
Children's Church Easter catch up from Andrea
I had a dream about life jackets two nights in a row. The life jackets were for sale outside my window, they were children's life ...
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Apr 6, 20203 min read
Monday catch up with some thoughts on leadership and character...
Well, Zoom Church went well on Sunday, we had around 54 households logged in accounting for about 70 people. It's so good that by the...
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Mar 31, 20202 min read
Listen- pastor's pen for 5th April
Listen now in the quiet that is available to you. Without the slurping hiss of espresso machines and passing traffic, listen. Listen not...
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Mar 27, 20201 min read
Sunday 29th March Zoom Church 9.30am
Hi everyone, We will continue our series on the book of Revelation and we are making our way through the letters to the seven churches of...
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Mar 24, 20203 min read
Pastor's pen 29th March 2020
Good morning to you all, Well Monday seemed a bit surreal, with alert levels for Covid-19 tracking from 2-4 this week. In case you...
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