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Living without walls
The Rule of the Northumbria Community - A Way for Living: This is the Rule we embrace. This is the Rule we will keep: we say YES to AVAILABILITY; we say YES to VULNERABILITY. We are called to be AVAIL… more →
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Living without walls
kenbaker wrote 1 month ago: The Rule of the Northumbria Community - A Way for Living: This is the Rule we embrace. This is the R … more →
The gloves are off
kenbaker wrote 1 month ago: All over the world, the gloves are off. In one sense that’s always the case. Conflict, persecution…. … more →
"I will build".....Meaning?
kenbaker wrote 1 month ago: “I will build.” It’s a remarkable statement. Here is Jesus, confronted with these obtuse … more →
What is the Price of Tolerance?
kenbaker wrote 1 month ago: I sometimes wonder what the price of tolerance is. How wide do you cast the net of easygoingness … more →
Planning for retirement
kenbaker wrote 1 month ago: Check out John Piper at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8nB7sZkgCs … more →
Reflecting on church-planting
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kenbaker wrote 1 month ago: We have to face facts: if we don’t plant more churches, we die. The longer I am in ministry, the mor … more →
"He drew me out of deep waters" !
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kenbaker wrote 1 month ago: Jesus described what he came to do in terms of Isaiah 61. He said “The Spirit of the Lord is u … more →
Listening to the voice of the refugee
kenbaker wrote 1 month ago: You need hands to hold. On the street where I lived we had two Iraqi/Kurdish families, a Bangladeshi … more →
Turn right...it's Fate (Easy Street and how to avoid it)
kenbaker wrote 2 months ago: The question “How can I deny myself for the good of someone else?” isn’t a question that automatical … more →
Should we venerate the past?
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kenbaker wrote 2 months ago: Three takes on venerating the past. A gold strip bearing a prayer from Psalm 68 is ‘one of the most … more →
"Why have you forsaken me?" Separation Anxiety: It's a dog's life
kenbaker wrote 2 months ago: The house is empty, the kids have gone back to school. Call it a sort of empty-nest syndrome, except … more →
Just another knockout punch
kenbaker wrote 2 months ago: “Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.” — P.G. … more →
Considering the dangerous edge
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kenbaker wrote 2 months ago: I remember my father telling me this important fact about handling knives: “Always consider the dang … more →
DEFINED BY NEGATION: Taking on the news.
kenbaker wrote 2 months ago: So many times we define ourselves by what we are not. The Bishop of Rochester has called on the esta … more →
Is your milestone a millstone?
kenbaker wrote 2 months ago: Sometimes we put so much emphasis on passing certain marker points that we forget that that’s all th … more →
If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in the dark with a mosquito
kenbaker wrote 3 months ago: “God’s gift to me is my potential. My gift back to God is what I do with that potential … more →
What does it mean to be “in the world but not of it”?
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kenbaker wrote 3 months ago: Jesus prayed for his followers in those words. He didn’t pray that they would be out of the flow of … more →
Moving into something new
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kenbaker wrote 9 months ago: What have Jade Goody, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and the Polish Catholic church have in common? … more →
Being the church in the world
kenbaker wrote 9 months ago: Being the church in the world means responding to crisis. Every thinking human being is going to car … more →
