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Thursday Worship on 25 September
Worship on Thursday will centre around the story of Moses and the People of Israel and the parting of the Red Sea. This is a story and a metaphor. In the story the waters did not part because Moses...
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Thursday Podcast, 25 September 2014
Today’s Podcast takes us into the heart of what it means to be obedient as a church, at the heart of God’s will and the centre of his purpose. The reading was Exodus 14: 10-14; 21-25; 30-31. 10As...
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Thursday Podcast, 9 October 2014
The reading at this week’s Thursday Service was Matthew 11: 25-30. At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the...
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Thursday Service Podcast, 16 October 2014
Listen to this audio download from the Thursday service at Dumfries Northwest.
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Thursday Service Audio 4 December 2014
The reading on Thursday 4 December was Isaiah 64:1-9. O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— as when fire kindles brushwood and the...
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Thursday Service Podcast, 11 December 2014
Listen to the audio from our Thursday Service on 11 December 2014. The reading for this Thursday Advent Service was Matthew 11:2-11. When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word...
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Thursday Podcast, 22 January 2015
Listen to the audio of the latest Thursday Service. Mark 1:4-11 John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And people from the whole...
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Thursday Podcast 5 February 2015
‘Jesus’ way of living and being reinforces his understanding of God all of the time. He believes that God is generous. He lives unbelievably generously. His belief in a generous and abundant...
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Thursday Podcast, 12 February 2015
‘Jesus invites us to risk something in order to gain something. Risk your life in order to gain your life. This is the beginning of discipleship and it is the beginning of the kingdom.’ ‘We learn to...
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Thursday Podcast, 5 March 2015
‘When the Gospel writers began to put their recollections of Jesus and other people’s memories of Jesus down in writing they also re-interpreted things. What Jesus had said decades before made new and...
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Thursday Podcast, 19 March 2015
‘You can believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that God created the world, that Jesus healed the sick – and what does any of that demand of you? What does it cost you? It doesn’t change you. It...
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Thursday Podcast, 9 April 2015
Listen to the latest Thursday Podcast, the reading and address from the Thursday Service, Easter week, 2015.
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Thursday Service, 30 April 2015
‘No pushing forward. A mutual listening. A shared silence. A communion at a level way beyond words.’ ‘What ties the whole thing together and helps us to see the spiritual and the physical, the serving...
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Thursday Podcast, 30 April 2015
‘A mutual listening. A shared silence. A communion at a level way beyond words.’ ‘What ties the whole thing together and helps us to see the spiritual and the physical, the serving of the world and...
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Thursday Podcast, 3 September 2015, Mark 7: 31-37
‘Sometimes people will ask me what we do in these Thursday services and I will tell them about the coffee and tea and biscuits and chatting and the singing and the laughing together but I will always...
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Thursday Podcast, 24 September 2015 (Psalm 139: 1-18)
Listen to the latest Thursday podcast from Dumfries Northwest. Non dual thinking in the poetry of the Old Testament. Psalm 139: 1-18 O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down...
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Thursday Afternoon Service
The Thursday afternoon service offers an opportunity which would otherwise be denied to members of the congregation and community who cannot, for reason of infirmity or age, to get to church on a...
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Thursday Podcast, 8 October 2015, Mark 10: 13-16
‘And that is the thing. An adult who has become like a child will (as if oblivious to the bad and pointless and selfish acts and activities and ambitions around him or her) act out the life of the...
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Thursday Podcast, 22 October 2015
‘At the heart of it is the father who looks at the younger son – who is unclean from the pigs and undeserving and without rights or righteousness – and he welcomes and accepts – and I don’t think he...
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Thursday Podcast, 6 November 2015, Mark 12: 38-44
Mark 12:38-44 As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have the best seats in the synagogues...
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Thursday Podcast, 3 December 2015
‘We have to think carefully about what it means and how to interpret it. And I don’t want to throw it all out of the window because it is different because once you strip away what is cultural and...
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Thursday Podcast, Advent 2, John 1: 6-8; 19-28
‘Disappointment is that place, that state, that way of being in which there is no hope or in which we see no hope. That is where God is. That is where God came. Into the life of a young and disgraced...
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Thursday Podcast, Advent 3, Luke 1: 26-38
‘Jesus wasn’t born on the first Christmas Day. Jesus didn’t land miraculously in a Nativity Play and the magi weren’t delivering Christmas presents to an ideal couple beginning life together in ideal...
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Thursday Podcast, 28 January 2016
‘I wonder if it isn’t that nothing is happening but that we have simply lost the ability to see it happening, to recognise it. It happens and we do not notice. It happens and we are not attuned to it....
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Thursday Podcast, 4 February 2015, Luke 5: 1-11
‘If you strip down this story then it is not about an incident which happened two thousand years ago at the side of Lake Gennesaret. It is a description of how things work. It is a description of how...
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