Stephen Cottrell ‘Walking Backwards to Christmas’ #adventbookclub
If you’ve never joined an online book club, well, there’s still time. Pam Webster has pulled together material for #adventbookclub, drawing on Stephen Cottrell’s Walking Backwards to Christmas,...
View Article#Advent20: No Light without Dark (@BrianDraper)
Brian describes how we often view the dark as ‘bad’, but the light as ‘good’, but: We need darkness. Imagine if there were no sunsets, no chance to see the last Continue Reading →
View Article#AdventBookClub: Anna
Luke 2:36-38 I love the way this first chapter has been written, as a life story (and I’m always a bit of a sucker for those), knowing that ‘today’ she has Continue Reading →
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Today’s email has a call to be vulnerable, to be fully incarnate (part of the world) … When the Word becomes flesh and lives among us, we see this in action, Continue Reading →
View Article#AdventBookClub: Rachel & #Advent20: Appreciating the Dark
Luke 2 – 36-38 One of those uncomfortable passages in the Bible “The Slaughter of the Innocents“, which is very uncomfortable to read, and even more so through the voice Continue Reading →
View Article#Advent20: Colours
Brian today encourages us to look at the colours around us, in the sky, on the ground – an infinite range of colours, with subtle shifts and tonal changes. It’s Continue Reading →
View Article#AdventBookClub: Casper and #Advent20
#AdventBookClub: Casper Matthew 2:1-2, 10-12 Today, we have the story of one of the Magi, a man who had planned journeys for many others based upon the stars, but (according Continue Reading →
View Article#AdventBookClub: David, with #Advent20
Luke 2:8-17 Today, we’re looking at the events of that first Christmas through the eyes of ‘David’, a shepherd. We are often given a ‘romantic’ view of the shepherds, but Continue Reading →
View Article#Adventbookclub: Martha #advent20
Luke 2: 1-7 Martha is the name given the Innkeeper’s wife in this version of the story. She’s a rather cynical woman who’s done her fair share of midwifery, and, Continue Reading →
View Article#Advent20 #WinchesterWaits
I didn’t get online yesterday, as I was bobbing around Winchester, and checking out the Christmas Markets, taking time to stop off at #WinchesterWaits. Meantime, this note from Brian: Don’t Continue...
View Article#AdventBookClub: Joseph #Advent20
Matthew 1:18-24 Today we look at what happens in ‘The Christmas Story’ from the perspective of Joseph. Joseph is ‘a practical man’ who makes things (a carpenter) – unlike those Continue Reading →
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Love this quote from today (#(digi)disciple-ship in being): ‘To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living Continue Reading →
View Article#AdventBookClub: Elizabeth
Luke 1 5-15; 24-25; 39-45 Today we meet with Elizabeth, who has spent too long saying ‘if only’, and wishing for a child. She is disappointed that everyone assumed that Continue Reading →
View Article#Advent20: Tunnelling
I’ve got a couple of Anne Lamott books on the shelves after Greenbelt this year, so this quote via Brian Draper chimes and challenges: “My understanding of incarnation is that Continue Reading →
View Article#Adventbookclub: Mary
Luke 1:26-38 We get a sense of Mary, a woman who has been well-prepared for a role as homemaker by her mother. She is a woman who loves the world, Continue Reading →
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Been enjoying the company of others around the country on Brian Draper‘s #Advent20 series – and the poem below got me thinking about the pressures on so many on the Continue Reading →
View Article#Advent20 with @briandraperuk
Summarising the #Advent20 journey with Brian Draper: And so, returning to Advent, we remember the words of the apostle John, as we draw towards this journey’s end: “In the beginning was Continue Reading →
View Article#Adventbookclub: Moses
Exodus 3:1-8 We return today to another Old Testament figure, with quite a depressing tale, in which “the dice are loaded” in days which cycle through themselves. He talks of Continue Reading →
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