Every month a short devotion by Graham Nicholson is posted on the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church website’s blog page. Here’s the latest: From the moment our alarm clocks jolt us awake in the morning to the last flicker of eyelids as we doze off to sleep, our lives are measured by time. Sometimes we may wish …
I saved this post by David Murray a couple of days ago. It flows on from my last post. It’s not meant to be exhaustive and there are some helpful additions in the comment stream at Murray’s blog. In a church of 100 people, 20 people will likely experience an episode of depression at some …
Humans are pretty complex, and our lives are all different. In a normal size church congregation, at any given time, more than a few folk are doing it tough. Here’s how not to deal with that. We minister through patience, prayer and presence. God will lift you up. And don’t rule out going to your …
Behold Our God featured as part of the song list at the Together For The Gospel conference. A great feature of that is that the song was rendered in a four-part arrangement, which means that it is singable by normal congregations. We’ll be experimenting with it at mgpc during 2013. The poetry’s still pretty loose, …
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