The Path - Pastor's Pen for 6th November 2022
Shared Path, Hawkes Bay This is what the Lord says: “Stop at the crossroads and look around. Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it....
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Oct 25, 20222 min read
Strength and Weakness - Pastor's Pen for 30th October 2022
The Kauri always looks like a mighty tree, majestic in the forest. However, it is vulnerable to Phytophthora agathidicida or 'Kauri...
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Oct 17, 20222 min read
Ministry of Silence - Pastor's Pen for 23rd October 2022
Milford skies October 2022 I like the early mornings before others in the household are up. The quiet is the best time to think and pray....
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Oct 13, 20222 min read
'Like Grass' - Pastor's pen for 16th Oct 2022
Looking west from Maungakiekie As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes...
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Oct 5, 20222 min read
Sandpit diplomacy - Pastor's pen for 9th October 2022
We note with concern the government of North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japan into the Pacific. Some kind of test. One...
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Sep 28, 20222 min read
Way-markers - Pastor's Pen for 2nd October 2022
Harvested valley from Trig Rd., Riverhead Forest The road out of the Covid time for the churches is a stony one. Things that once seemed...
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Sep 20, 20222 min read
Only Human - Pastor's Pen for 25th September 2022
I watched with interest the funeral of Queen Elizabeth ll yesterday evening. It's funny what you think of as you watch. What happens if...
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Sep 13, 20222 min read
Changes - Pastor's Pen for 18th September 2022
Changing, moving city last night The late David Bowie sang; I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm...
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Sep 6, 20222 min read
Pay what you want - Pastor's Pen for 11 September 2022
There's this company who show up with their photographers at a lot of the trail races I do called Photos4sale. They've got this great...
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Sep 1, 20222 min read
Peace - Pastor's Pen for 4th Sept 2022
It's sobering as we mark the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev to see the latest Russian administration doing all within its power to erase...
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Aug 24, 20222 min read
Strengths - Pastor's Pen for 28th August 2022
Lion Rock ⓒ Fiona Sherwin 2022 Many churches at face value are facing a time of uncertainty, and each denomination and congregation with...
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Aug 16, 20222 min read
Testimony - Pastor's Pen for 21st August 2022
On Sunday we heard from Eve a testimony of healing prayer for her friend Juliet living with cancer. Let us continue in prayer for her....
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Aug 9, 20222 min read
Character - Pastor's Pen for 14th August 2022
I must say as the parent of a child mercilessly bullied at a sought after local school by a group of much bigger boys, I found the...
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Aug 2, 20222 min read
World Peace and all that - Pastor's Pen for 7th August 2022
Opito Bay panorama 2016 Our national PCANZ moderator Rt. Rev. Hamish Galloway reminds us it is Peace Sunday this week. As I continue to...
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Jul 26, 20222 min read
Persistence - Pastor's Pen for 31st July 2022
That'll teach me for talking about abundance last week. This week I have an abundance of cold symptoms. I also have an abundance of RAT...
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Jul 19, 20222 min read
Abundance - Pastor's Pen for 23rd July 2022
Piha panorama It seems funny to be speaking of abundance in a winter that we already want to see the back of, with hospitals at breaking...
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Jul 12, 20222 min read
Live life well - Pastor's Pen for 17th July 2022
Looking North-West, Wenderholm Regional Park The teacher in the book of Ecclesiastes writes: What do people really get for all their hard...
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Jul 5, 20222 min read
Through a glass, darkly - Pastor's Pen 10th July 2022
Blurred cityscape from Sulphur Bay, Northcote Point, 4th July 2022 Hoping for a clear view of the city last night on my run, instead I...
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Jun 30, 20222 min read
The Table - Pastor's Pen for 3rd July 2022
Te Rau Puriri Regional Park with table Amazingly it is July already! How did that happen? I went to my first full 'in person' Presbytery...
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Jun 22, 20222 min read
Pastor's Pen 26th June 2022 - Midwinter-Matariki
Lorinda Pereira speaking on YouTube shares her Hokianga/Ngā Puhi perspective on Matariki (Puanga): "Matariki to me is a point in time...
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