Husband of @fiperry86. Dad of 3. Vicar @SMLPoole. Follower of Jesus, enjoy sport, reading (biographies & history), adventure & the Outdoors
Poole, UK
Joined March 2013
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🇦🇺 The Melbourne Diocesan Synod has formally welcomed Archbishop Ric Thorpe’s radical growth plan for the diocese, which is designed to double Sunday church attendance by 2036. #ChurchNews #WorldNews churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
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Great letter in The Times today.
Where there is biblical preaching and people praying the church is growing!
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Unprecedented moment that two great rugby rivals took the knee in union for Jesus Christ.
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God regularly works through ordinary people, doing what they normally do, who with a mixture of half-faith and devotion are holding themselves ready for whatever God has in mind.
-Luke for Everyone
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The INEQE latest report recommends that funding for safeguarding at diocesan level should be provided by the Church Commissioners, which would "release millions of pounds back into local parishes"
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This is wise. Unless high quality palliative care is available for all, then assisted dying will never be anything more than Hobson’s choice, especially for the poorest, for minorities and others lacking the agency of - for instance - your average politician or commentator.
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Another sign of the changing Zeitgeist. Also, some young men who have come to faith in my very White local area—often at least gently rightwards-leaning—have specifically cited the public witness of Black pro footballers as something that opened their own path to Christianity.
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God is called the LORD, the God who enters into a covenant with us by grace. This unfamiliar word means his love is “locked on to us” in unending commitment. Thus he is always for us.
#timkeller #timkellerquote
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The closest I have felt to God has never been on a summit. It has been in the valley. Cold, broken, asking for help.
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Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go.
Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't.
"Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck."
What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name.
Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."
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"This is a unique moment where a US President, a Russian President, a Chinese President are dead against the Europeans. This is the right moment for us. Wake up !" 👇
History is proving Macron and pro-EU leaders 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕
Brexiteers and European populists 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈
💪🇪🇺
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How do we keep going when the odds are stacked against us. For me it's: "Every time I've been on my knees, broken and out of options, something picked me up."
Never underestimate the power of a simple prayer.
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FORMER ATHEIST TURNED BELIEVER
Investigative journalist @LeeStrobel set out to disprove the resurrection of Jesus — but says an “avalanche of evidence” pointed powerfully toward the truth of Christianity.
“It would have taken more faith to maintain my atheism than to become a Christian.” ⬇️ @KayleighMcEnany
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The first meal mentioned in the Bible is the moment when Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit. The direct result is new and unwelcome knowledge: ‘the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked’ (dienoichthesan hoi ophthalmoi ton duo kai egnosan hoti gymnoi esan, Genesis 3:7). Now this other couple, Cleopas and his companion (most likely his wife, one of the many Marys in the gospel story), are at table, and are confronted with new and deeply welcome knowledge: ‘their eyes were opened, and they recognized him’ (auton de dienoichthesan hoi ophthalmoi, kai epegnosan auton, 24:31). This, Luke is saying, is the ultimate redemption; this is the meal which signifies that the long exile of the human race, not just of Israel, is over at last. This is the start of the new creation. This is why ‘repentance and forgiveness of sins are to be announced to all nations’ (24:47). If Earle Ellis is right to see the Emmaus scene as the eighth meal in the gospel, there may be a numerical scheme at work to reinforce the same point (which, as we shall see, is highlighted especially by John). This is the first day of the new week.
-The Resurrection of the Son of God
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🐣✝️ Wishing a joyous Easter Sunday to Christians celebrating in the UK, the Commonwealth and around the world today.
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Let’s call this what it is, it’s not just hypocrisy, it’s moral fraud.
Franklin Graham had no problem demonizing Barack Obama, a faithful husband, scandal-free, disciplined, educated, Black man, the very embodiment of the “bootstraps” gospel white evangelicals preach about, as some kind of threat, even suggesting that he was antichrist.
Yet, the same Graham bows in reverence to Donald Trump, an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, unrepentant racist, porn star banging, pathological liar, with a trail of infidelity, exploitation, documented racism, and associations with convicted child sex traffickers, and has the caucasity to call him “raised up by God.”
That’s not discernment, that’s deception, dishonesty, and disregard for the sacred text he claims to believe.
The standard didn’t change, the subject did. Obama’s integrity was dismissed because he was Black. Trump’s corruption is sanctified because he is white and politically useful.
Graham isn’t applying scripture, he’s weaponizing it. He ignores sin when it serves power, then quotes the Bible to justify the very wickedness it condemns. That’s not Christianity, that’s idolatry of whiteness, wrapped in religious language and draped in a flag. 
This is hypocrisy at its highest level: Calling evil good when it benefits you, and calling good evil when it threatens your power.
And then having the audacity to say God said it.
