I’ve been continuing in post-easter mode with articles for the Border Watch. Next week will have a remembrance theme. I’m conscious that not everyone will read all of these, so even though themes overlap they have to stand on their own. I’m also working on the idea that there will be a committed readership that …

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This week’s Border Watch article includes thoughts about the end of daylight saving and how meeting the resurrected Jesus manifests an everyday lifestyle of reconciliation and forgiveness. The editor picked up on the association between resurrection and reconciliation in the paper’s title for the piece, which was nice. So, last Sunday was my favourite day …

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I have no idea how many people will be reading the Good Friday edition of our local paper, the Border Watch, but here’s the pastor’s article that I submitted for inclusion today. Here’s an exercise for those of you who may be reading or hearing messages relating to Easter this weekend. If the message (article, …

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The Border Watch called this article ‘Salvation Accomplished’. The idea was to cross the themes of Palm Sunday with thoughts about the public reaction to the recent death of former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser. News of the death of Malcolm Fraser has evoked a varied range of responses. In contrast to Gough Whitlam, who …

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