From Robert Farrar Capon: Confession is not the first step on the road to recovery; it is the last step in the displaying of a corpse. Between Noon and Three, pg 74. Confession is not a transaction, not a negotiation in order to secure forgiveness; it is the after-the-last grasp of a corpse that finally …
Songs of preparation: Who With God Most High Finds Shelter (Ps 91). Call to worship: Praise: Jesus Is The Name We Honour. Corporate Prayer of Confession: Song of assurance, confession of faith, doxology: Alas, And Did My Saviour Bleed?; The Apostle’s Creed; Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow. Consecutive reading: Ezekiel 47:1-12 which describes …
Turns out that little pocket on the front of blue jeans was originally to put a pocket watch in. Don’t take my word for it. Levi Strauss & Co say so. It’s hard to argue with them. Read about it here, along with a few other items of blue jean miscellany.
Prepared for our local newspaper, the Border Watch. Even though the date changes from year to year, the name ‘Ash Wednesday’ gives rise to powerful memories that abide more that thirty years after the fires raged through the affected areas of South Australia and Victoria. Having moved to this region over a decade ago it …
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