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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 17, 20222 min read
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'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...
Minister
Oct 13, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Oct 5, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Sep 28, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Sep 20, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Sep 13, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Sep 6, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Sep 1, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Aug 24, 20222 min read
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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....
Minister
Aug 16, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Aug 9, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Aug 2, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Jul 26, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Jul 19, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Jul 12, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Jul 5, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Jun 30, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Jun 22, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Jun 16, 20222 min read
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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...
Minister
Jun 8, 20222 min read
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