Britain’s Black Friday shopping event fires the starting gun this weekend. Whatever the razzamatazz surrounding it, it can be quite a headache. With deals screaming out, I often end up with massive FOMO. What if I miss out?
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Word of the year 2022 is the most alarming: “permacrisis” defined as “an extended period of instability and insecurity.”
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I wonder, have you stopped to hear the message of the carols? Lots of adverts this year mention “the magic of Christmas” but magic isn’t real. It is an illusion. The Christian message is that Jesus came into our midst,
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Believe it or not, it’s that time of year when advent calendars become a big thing in many people’s homes. So what is really behind advent?
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Chocolate and Christmas. What a great combo. Last week my family thought about chocolate differently.
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This week in my household we opened the first doors of our advent calendars with great anticipation. The word “advent” means “expectant waiting.” This season is marked by waiting and anticipating something big, something better.
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This Christmas week I became a stargazer in the hope of seeing ‘the great conjunction’ as Jupiter and Saturn crossed paths in the night sky. It made me think about those Magi 2000 years ago who followed a heart-hunch that God was calling them to follow his star towards Jesus.
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“Bah humbug!” said Ebenezer Scrooge so famously in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. The Christian message behind Christmas deserves scrutiny for humbug. If it has no substance, if Christmas is merely about tinsel, TV and turkey then we must dismiss it as a festival devoid of deep meaning.
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Life seems to happen so fast around us. The things we once viewed as being a long way off suddenly become today’s events. The Bible offers the advice that sometimes we just need to stop and attend not just to the urgent, but to the most important things in life.
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This advent season is all about arrivals, all about preparations. So what is really behind advent?
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Lockdown 2.0 comes to an end next week., the city is opening up again. 2020 has been a tough year. How willing are you this Christmas time to be open to new ideas, new thought, new faith?
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