Small steps of faith - Pastor's Pen for 19th November 2023
I exited the dentist at noon on Monday with only half my face working, and having been instructed not to eat, drink or rinse for an hour....
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- Nov 10, 2023
- 2 min
Endings and Beginnings - Pastor's Pen for 12th November 2023
This week my bits and pieces of study leave comes to an end. The small matter of finishing the final essay for my supervision course...
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Minister
- Nov 1, 2023
- 2 min
Living with Obstacles and Ambiguity - Pastor's Pen for November 5th 2023
I can see the mountain, and I might want to go there, but what obstacles are in my path that I have no knowledge of, and have not...
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Minister
- Oct 24, 2023
- 2 min
Come to the Quiet - Pastor's Pen for 29th October 2023
Is November really upon us? Soon it will be Christmas with all its busy-ness and chaos. This seat in the bush on a hairpin bend reminds...
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Minister
- Oct 19, 2023
- 2 min
With age, wisdom....Pastor's Pen for 22nd October 2023
My running club, being one of the oldest in Auckland, has some people who have been around for a while. We are not full of sprightly...
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Minister
- Oct 11, 2023
- 2 min
Shifting focus - Pastor's pen for 15th October 2023
City from Forrest Hill in evening light Oct 2023 There's a run I often do from home up to Forrest Hill and down into Centennial Park for...
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Minister
- Oct 2, 2023
- 2 min
General Assembly - Pastor's Pen for 8th October 2023
Tamaki River looking West from Farm Cove, Pakuranga It's difficult to summarise a General Assembly of the PCANZ due to the intensity of...
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Minister
- Sep 28, 2023
- 1 min
Reconnect - Pastor's Pen for 1st October 2023
Since Wednesday I've been at General Assembly which is being held at St Kentigern College in Pakuranga. I haven't been on the East side...
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Minister
- Sep 18, 2023
- 2 min
What lies beneath - Pastor's pen for 24th September 2023
Sulphur Flats Lake Rotorua - Sept 2023 Rotorua is very beautiful in places, with idyllic lake settings and forest trails. Yet so often...
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Minister
- Sep 12, 2023
- 2 min
Walking in Light - Pastor's Pen for 17th September 2023
Westshore dawn panorama, Napier. August 2023 Darkness and light are powerful and pervasive biblical images. They speak to us often of the...
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Minister
- Sep 7, 2023
- 2 min
Open your hand - Pastor's Pen for 10th Sept 2023
A couple of times in the last week or so I've rescued an earthworm from the church driveway. Yesterday's lucky worm was a big juicy...
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Minister
- Aug 29, 2023
- 2 min
Walking purposefully - Pastor's pen for 3rd September 2023
Napier Port from Westshore, Chilly August Morning Psalm 138 encourages me with the words; 'Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you...
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Minister
- Aug 24, 2023
- 1 min
The Waiting Room - Pastor's Pen for 27th August 2023
Among the people I care most about there have been a considerable number of 'waiting room' experiences lately. Waiting for laboratory and...
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Minister
- Aug 16, 2023
- 1 min
Reach out and touch faith - Pastor's Pen for 20th August
Orewa Estuary August Morning The 1989 Depeche Mode electronica hit Personal Jesus was no doubt intended as a cynical sneer at those of...
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Minister
- Aug 8, 2023
- 2 min
Walking on Water - Pastor's Pen for 13th August 2023
Napier Waterfront August 2023 Marine Parade, Napier is not the place for swimming or walking on water, or any such personal aquatics....
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Minister
- Aug 4, 2023
- 1 min
Break the Chains - Pastor's pen for 6th August 2023
In Acts chapter 16 we read; 'About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to...
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Minister
- Jul 25, 2023
- 2 min
Reconnecting with self and others - Pastor's Pen for 30th July 2023
Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries wrote; 'International Self-Care Day is marked on the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month each...
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Minister
- Jul 18, 2023
- 1 min
Matariki - Pastor's pen for 23rd July 2023
Rangitoto winter morning July 2023 I accidentally woke really early this morning (Tuesday) and seeing as things seemed clear and still...
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Minister
- Jul 12, 2023
- 2 min
Slow down and look around - Pastor's pen for 16th July 2023
Early 20th Century shops - Upper Queen St There are a group of Edwardian style shops in upper Queen St., dating from 1909 onwards....
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Minister
- Jul 7, 2023
- 1 min
A people of faith and hope - Pastor's Pen for 9th July 2023
The news of the world seems very uncertain at the moment. War and climate change all around, ram raids and crime waves in New Zealand. We...
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