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27th September 2020 Russell Braund

Climate Sunday Part 1

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So we are in our fourth week of our new series, ‘Church - but not as you know it.’ What has Climate Sunday got to do with that? In any case, we spent about twelve weeks focussing on creation and the environment before the summer. Haven’t we done the climate bit? And what has it…
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20th September 2020 Russell Braund

Think upon your sacrifice: The forgiveness of sins

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Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher who said nothing endures but change. Change is the only thing that is constant, if that’s not a contradiction! Now I don’t usually quote Greek philosophers, unless it is to point out that as Christians we don’t see things their way. For example, our understanding of life after death and…
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13th September 2020 Russell Braund

It’s Church – but not as you know it.

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Coming back to the heart of worship: church on what basis? Suddenly on 22nd March there was just Chris Barnard and I in church and I was talking to a computer screen. The following week it was just me in my dining room trying to be the all singing, all dancing pastor. After a couple…
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6th September 2020 Russell Braund

Bless the Lord O my soul: Resurrection people

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Book recommendation: ‘Surprised by Hope’ Tom Wright. ‘Lord,’ Martha said to Jesus, ‘if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.’Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again.’Martha answered, ‘I know he will rise again in the resurrection at…
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23rd August 2020 Russell Braund

Proverbs 24:13-22 – Don’t fret over evil

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How are you finding Proverbs? Not perhaps a book to read from cover to cover, but if we don’t have some sort of system, quite probably one of those books we don’t look at very often. Also the Proverbs can seem a bit simplistic at times - if you do this, that will happen or…
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12th July 2020 Russell Braund

Tenants of the King: celebrating creation

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Praise the Lord, my soul. Lord my God, you are very great;you are clothed with splendour and majesty. 2 The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment;he stretches out the heavens like a tent3 and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.He makes the clouds his chariotand rides on the…
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28th June 2020 Russell Braund

Tenants of the King – what is our responsibility?

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Psalm 8; Genesis 1:24-29 IntroductionI have deliberately not been sensationalist or been heavy handed in playing the guilt card in this series, simply because that doesn’t help. However, we do need to recognise what is taking place and that we have a responsibility in that. God brought order out of chaos and we have been…
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23rd June 2020 Russell Braund

Tenants of the King: God so loved the world – what is its future?

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Read Romans 8:18-25 We will meet Him in the airAnd then we will be like HimFor we will see Him, as He is Then all hurt and pain will ceaseAnd we'lll be with Him foreverAnd in His glory we will live There is a joke in the music group that I generally only choose Fellingham/Getty/Townend…
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