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Resolutions

In 1738, the literary giant Samuel Johnson wrote in his diary: “Oh Lord, enable me to redeem the time which I have spent in sloth.” Nineteen years later, he wrote, “Oh mighty God, enable me to shake off sloth and redeem the time misspent in idleness and sin by diligent application of the days yet […]

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Made new

The rock star, Sting, in his autobiography Broken Music, tells how he bought his first bass guitar. In a local music shop, in the middle of all the shiny new guitars, he saw an old Fender bass. is a careworn relic of the sixties, the paintwork ruined and the varnish flaked. Among all the shiny others on the […]

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The Journey Begins

So we’re setting off on a journey into the blogosphere. Whatever that is. For many years I enjoyed making a weekly article in church bulletins. Unfortunately, the days of the printed newsletter style bulletin are gone. Instead we have the digital format of blogs. So I guess if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, right? […]

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