When our new church was built in 2005 I advertised that I would buy ten chairs as an encouragement for other members to follow suit. However, I was rebuked, or corrected by two ladies in the church. We all need, from time to time, wise and kind discipline and I’m not above that. However, was…
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Saturday morning dawned and off we went to Stratford upon Avon, a medieval town dating from its official charter in 1196. It is close to the Cotswolds and, when it was the major sheep producing area, Stratford was one of the main towns for processing, marketing and distribution of sheep and wool. Its smaller Roman…
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When I was in my early teen years I attended a technical college in Perry Barr, Birmingham. I was not bright enough to pass for a grammar school so it was a vocational life for me. In the sixth form all students had to do a research essay as part of their final year and…
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 “A 31-year-old pastor in Mount Dora, Fla., recently set the record for the longest sermon ever preached. Pastor Zach Zehnder of Cross Church began his quest on Fri., Nov. 7, and by Sunday had preached for 53 hours and 18 minutes. I have to assume he has no deacons at Cross Church, or they would…
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