Pastor's pen for 13th Sept - with sober judgement
'For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think...
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- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
Pastor's pen for 6th September 2020 - Father's Day
These are interesting times in which to be both a father and a pastor. One is supposed to have firm opinions about stuff in both roles,...
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Minister
- Aug 25, 2020
- 2 min
Pastor's pen for 30th August 2020 - Prophecy
Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash Speak, Lord, in stillness or storm, in circumstance or sign, in scripture or word, in conscience or...
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Minister
- Aug 17, 2020
- 2 min
Fake news and pointless power games - Pastor's pen for 23rd August
Croatian theologian Miroslav Volf wrote this yesterday: We are drowning in fake news and often complain about it. But it’s ubiquitous...
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Minister
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Pastor's Pen 16th August 2020 - A touch of Déjà vu
I write this to you having just had a zoom meeting with Ian, our proposed guest speaker / film introducer for Sunday. His business in...
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Minister
- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min
A stitch in time saves nine... Pastor's pen for 9th August 2020
"The 'stitch in time' is simply the prompt sewing up of a small hole or tear in a piece of material, so saving the need for more...
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Minister
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
Pastor's pen for Sunday 2nd August - Progress at hyper-speed...
Photo by Holger Link on Unsplash I read with some dismay of President Putin boasting about his new hyper-sonic Avangard glide vehicle,...
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Minister
- Jul 23, 2020
- 2 min
Pastor's pen 26th July 2020 - Retail Therapy?
I found an anthology in the Salvation Army charity shop today, and here is one of the poemsit contained, something suitable for us as we...
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Minister
- Jul 16, 2020
- 2 min
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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Minister
- Jul 8, 2020
- 2 min
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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Minister
- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
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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Minister
- Jun 25, 2020
- 2 min
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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Minister
- Jun 17, 2020
- 3 min
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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Minister
- Jun 11, 2020
- 2 min
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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Minister
- Jun 5, 2020
- 3 min
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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Minister
- May 28, 2020
- 2 min
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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Minister
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
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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Minister
- May 12, 2020
- 2 min
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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Minister
- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
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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Minister
- May 9, 2020
- 3 min
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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