Leadership Conference

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Relational Mission are hosting a leadership conference May 28th-31st – aimed at all kinds and levels of leaders within church life and the marketplace. Here’s a video Mike Betts made to get us enthused to go… Leadership Conference Promo Video from Relational Mission on Vimeo. You can book in already at the early bird price […]

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Global Wealth Distribution Assembly

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I’m doing a primary school assembly this afternoon on wealth and poverty and came upon some frightening statistics… How rich are we? If you use the Global Rich List tool, you may be surprised. The average salary in West Norfolk is £30,900, which would make you the 56,747,243 richest person on the planet, in the […]

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Worry!

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I’m reading a pretty challenging book at the moment – Phil Moore’s Gagging Jesus – Things Jesus said we wish he hadn’t. The first chapter has nailed me already! It’s about stress and worry. Why? Worry and stress are the chief symptoms of idolatry and self worship. Ouch! Over-busyness is a serious sin – on […]

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Awake O Sleeper

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Isaiah 29 “Ariel, Ariel” – Isaiah is not advertising washing powder! He is having a dig at Jerusalem with the words “Altar Hearth, Altar Hearth!” – doesn’t have quite the same ring about it in English. Jerusalem was the centre of Old Testament worship where sinners worshipped a holy God through the substitutionary sacrifice of […]

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Don’t be a fading flower – Isaiah 28

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Isaiah 28 Isaiah looks to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Ephraim, or what is left of it after the Assyrian mauling of 733. It’s capital Samaria was in a beautiful valley, but Isaiah pronounces imminent woe. It’s a fading flower, it’s glorious beauty. Samaria is a “living metaphor of the easy-going decadence soon to become […]

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Baptisms

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What a Sunday! Asia, Elizabeth, Lesley Ann and Xiping got baptised. Enjoy these photos of a great occasion – video will follow. Click any photo to start the slideshow! [print_gllr id=1231]

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How the world will end!

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Isaiah 24-27 In the beginning God planted a garden, but Cain built a city. Cain a fugitive and wanderer built a city to satisfy his need for belonging and significance. Cities aren’t just collections of buildings, they are mechanisms for living independently of God, a way of human self-salvation, a denial of human mortality and […]

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