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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Jun 16, 20222 min
The flow of unity - Pastor's Pen for 19th June 2022
Waitangi Waterfall after heavy rain, Omeru Reserve, Highway 16 If you've ever rafted over a waterfall you know there is really not much...
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Jun 8, 20222 min
Can these bones live? Pastor's pen for 12th June 2022
Various promptings have led me to meditate on Ezekiel 37: 1-14 which of course is the prophecy in the valley of dry bones. The Lord moves...
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May 31, 20222 min
God speaks - Pastor's pen for 5th June
Muriwai - land, sea and sky The psalmist declares: The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork....
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May 24, 20222 min
Heaven's above? - Pastor's pen for 29th May 2022
Having been chewing on the idea for a preaching series on heaven for some time, here goes. It's not fully formed in my head, but I've got...
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May 20, 20222 min
God's free market - Pastor's pen for 22nd May 2022
I’m sure we can all think of places we have travelled to where the market vendors were enthusiastically happy to promote their wares to...
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May 11, 20222 min
Confessions of a hypochondriac - Pastor's Pen for 15th May 2022
Having not been sick with anything at all for a number of years it was a bit of a shock to come down with shingles last week, a quite...
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