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March 22, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

Jesus in Pain

“Christ died for sins once and for all, a good man on behalf of sinners, in order to lead you

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March 15, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

Mothering Sunday or Mother’s Day?

In my diary the fourth Sunday of Lent (this year Sunday 18 March 2012) is marked as ‘Mothering Sunday’. On

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March 8, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

Encourage Your Minister

In Double Cream (Monarch 1988), an anthology of Christian witticism collected by Stephen Gaukroger and Nick Mercer, there is a

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March 1, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

Hospitality versus Entertaining

In the Pastorals, ‘hospitality’ is a key qualification for pastoral office: Paul tells Timothy (1 Tim 3.2) that a ‘bishop’

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February 21, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

Let’s Mark Lent

The English word ‘Lent’ means ‘Spring’. But Lent is not primarily a spring festival, but rather a pre-Easter period of

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February 16, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

An Inviting Church

This week I came across two American studies on inviting people to church According to the first study: Three out

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February 9, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

A Welcoming Church

“I was a stranger and you welcomed me” (Matt 25.35). These words of Jesus found in the Parable of the

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February 2, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

Names Are Important

“There is no sound so sweet as the sound of one’s own name”, said William Shakespeare. And he’s right. People

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January 26, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

Taking Time Off

I hate being unwell – it is just such a waste of time! My last bout of wrestling with a

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January 19, 2012 Paul Beasley-Murray

Belief in God

Here in the UK fewer and fewer people seem to believe in God. According to the 2011 British Social Attitudes

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