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	The Aumbry Door

"Philip's encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch"

". . . Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, Keith Ward, defined a "fundamentalist" as a person who "read and interpreted the sacred scriptures of her/his faith, without any reference to the tradition . . . ."

"Thomas"

". . . Then comes the great declaration of Thomas - perhaps the climax of the whole gospel of John - Thomas's words of adoration and worship: 'My Lord and my God'. . . ."

"Commitment"

". . . Running away from commitments has the danger of turning our life stories into an endless setting up and breaking up, fits and starts, one thing after another with no links between them. . . ."

"The Anglican Tradition of Lent"

". . . Today, the Fourth Sunday in Lent, is a bringing together of traditions of worship from long before the Reformation with what might be seen as part of the national life. . . ."

"The Protestant understanding of Lent"
". . . if any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. . . ."

"The Orthodox understanding of Lent"
". . . Lent as it exists today in the Orthodox Church is the result of a long historical development. . . ."

"The Origins of St John's"
". . . We rightly take pride in all that has been achieved since 1863, but what our reading from Isaiah reminds us that it is not us, or those who have gone before us, who have achieved. . . ."

"Proclaiming Christ in our worship, our ministry and our mission"

". . . But at the heart of our life together, wherever we are or will be, stands the Living Christ, calling us into the Heart of Love which is the Blessed and Holy Trinity. . . ."

"The Problem with Saint John the Baptist"

". . . John the Baptist, like all prophets, disturbs, troubles, interrupts the ordered, controlled, regular religious world we'd all like to inhabit. . . ."

"Happy New Year in December"

". . . No, ordination hasn't addled my brain! I am wishing you a "Happy New Year" because. . . ."

"The Parable of 10 Virgins"

"Perhaps more than ever the hope that is offered by and bound up in Jesus Christ is more significant and vital. . . ."

"Rowan Williams on the nature of forgiveness"

"Belief in the forgiveness of sins is just as much a matter of faith as anything else in the creed. . . ."

"Matthew on the church as a community of hope and love"

"The church Matthew describes is a community of hope. . . ."

"...in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function..."

". . . I feel in my heart a new diligence, of which I can't help but think St Paul approves."

"Christ's readiness to see each person as an individual."
". . . We group people together, place them in pigeon holes, and then made judgements which can lead to dehumanisation and exploitation. . . ."

"The closeness of God."
". . . There is no need to ascend into heaven to find him for he has already come to earth . . ."

"We can't remain on the mountop"
". . . We must go back down to the plain but taking the new way of viewing the world with us."

"The priceless worth of the kingdom of heaven"

". . . What is this hidden treasure or pearl of great price in both the gospel for today and in the collect? . . ."

"How often have you heard someone say that they are not good enough to come to church . . . . ."
". . . How different the reality is!. . . ."

"... The anger of God ..."

". . . We comfortably middle class christians are not very comfortable with anger . . ."