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Sue Peat reflects on traditional and more recent approaches to mission
‘Oh God of burning, cleansing flame: Send the fire!’ pleaded Salvation Army founder William Booth. The essence of this familiar and well loved hymn emphasises the vital need for the Holy Spirit within all aspects of the Christian life. Some insights into the third person of the Trinity are provided by these biblical images of the Holy Spirit:
• Counsellor (John 14: 26)
• Life Giver (John 6: 63)
• the one who brings God’s power (Acts 1: 8)
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When we preach challenging sermons – and if we are to be true to the Gospel that is sometimes our calling – we must never forget that out congregations may include people battling with terrible circumstances outside our understanding especially depressive illness. It is all too easy for us to make the depressed person’s load heavier.
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Dr Alison Le Cornu commends distance learning
I wonder whether you have ever known anyone working through a distance learning programme? As a teenager growing up in Jersey, I remember my parents talking about Jersey’s first Open University graduates in the early 1970s and their comments about how disciplined this handful of people had needed to be and how long it had taken them to get their degree. Little did I realise that it was to become not only my own profession, but also an important way in which I too would gain qualifications, knowledge and experience.
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Stephen Skuce reminds us that we all have more to learn…
Local Preachers come in all shapes and sizes and educational backgrounds. Some finish their theological study when accredited, others are keen to develop further. One opportunity is at Cliff College where accredited local preachers are able to enrol for postgraduate certificate courses that can lead to an MA in three years of part-time study. Four Local Preachers tell their story of further study…
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Luke Curran on a “love, hate” relationship
If you ask most students in a theological College what they think about the daily pattern of worship, you will probably discover a “love, hate” relationship. Sometimes it is engaging, uplifting and spiritually refreshing, sometimes dull, monotonous and spiritually irrelevant. Yet the activity of praying with others is a discipline which goes back to the earliest roots of Christianity and involves two liturgical traditions, sometimes called “Cathedral prayer” and “Monastic prayer”i.
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