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40 day challenge text challenge

40 day challenge text challenge

Last year we put together a challenge for people to sign up to on their mobile phones. It was part of our Chocolate Sunday theme it was really quite successful so we’ve got it running again. check it out on the Sanctuary First web site.
Chocolate Sunday is all about debunking the idea that [...]

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Getting Back @The Bank!

Getting Back @The Bank!

I don’t know about you but I get so frustrated with the banking world. So much has become impersonal however what I’m going to write about today I want to preface with the comment that over the years I’ve been most impressed with our local Bank of Scotland branch staff in Bo’ness.
Today was no [...]

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Reflecting on Change

Reflecting on Change

Well its another working day and I’m back at my desk. This time last week I was walking around Lima doing a bit of shopping and having a coffee before catching the plane. Anyway it all seems a long time ago – when you get back into the cut and thrust of parish [...]

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Do we define the space or does the space define us?

Do we define the space or does the space define us?

I was walking past a couple of elders as they talked in church on Sunday . I couldn’t help but overhear their conversation. They were talking to each other about the challenges that face them in the workplace. I stopped and listened to them as they began to share with me some of the [...]

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Hoon and Hewitt Red Faces All Round

I just felt there was a touch of arrogance in the actions of Hoon and Hewitt as they stepped out into the light of the media. Here were two MPs full of their own importance. They were going to be the saviours of the Labour Party. It was their plan to have a leadership contests [...]

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Today's Tower of Babel

I felt a touch of history repeating itself today as I read in the news about the world’s tallest building being opened today. It stands at 828 metres and has cost 1.5 billion dollars to build. So what makes us wish to build higher and higher. I guess there is a human desire to stretch [...]

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Get Read Get Set TEXT Bible 40 to 80806

Just back from Sanctuary First. the theme was all about moving from one space ro another . It was about helping us see that the way to  bring about change in the life of the church is to be prepared to make the appropriate sacrifice.
Although it was a Bank Holiday weekend we were delighted to [...]

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Go on make church a happy place.

I’m hoping to get a new picture up on the blog maybe this week. But you know something they tell me its going to snow tonight. So maybe `I should wait another week. Its good to begin to hear feedback about the Lenten Groups that started up and also that others are finding the texting [...]

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PEACE ON EARTH?

Its the second day in the new year and war seems to be round the corner for the Palastinians and the Israelis. Have a look at this Rueters web page my heart goes out to such people caught up in the middle of years of mistrust and injustice on both sides.
I’m wondering where Tony Blair [...]

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