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Word for the Week 2005

Welcome to the Word for the Week 2005 archive. Here you’ll find copies of the weekly emails which have provided a source of stimulation, encouragement and challenge to many thousands of people over the last eight years. Read them again, or read them for the first time. A new Word for the Week article is produced every week and is added to this archive, so check back regularly

Going home for Christmas

  • Date:

    19-12-2005

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

Everyone went to his own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. Luke 2:3-5

Whatever...

  • Date:

    12-12-2005

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

Though the fig tree does not blossom,and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive failsand the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold and there is no herd in the stalls, Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will exult in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of ...

Patience is a virtue

  • Date:

    02-12-2005

  • Author:

    Helen Parry

The fruit of the Spirit is… patience. Galatians 5.22 Be patient, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2

This is my prayer

  • Date:

    28-11-2005

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk… O Lord, I have heard of your renown, and I stand in awe, O Lord, of your work. In our own time revive it; in our own time make it known. Habakkuk 3:1-2

The sound of silence

  • Date:

    21-11-2005

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him! Habakkuk 2:20

Not as the world gives

Living with waiting

God in history

Surprised by joy

Wrestling with God

Love is… forgiveness

Love is...

Work makes the world go round

The blessing of the big picture

First class mail

Is anyone out there praying for me?

Lovely tree – shame about the fruit

Wilderness 3 – whole life learning

Wilderness 2 – enslaved by fear

The blessing of belonging

Wilderness 1 – the riskier road

The blessing of forgiveness

Blessing God for blessing us

Overcoming evil

Permission to down tools?

At arm’s length

At arm’s length

Being whole

It’s not fair

If it’s mine, I want it

Called away

The drink problem

The abuse of authority

Open doors, open hands

So, how do we love our neighbour?

How are you?

Being called

Humility and wisdom

Refreshing generosity

The blind see and believe

Transformation – the Greeks had a word for it!

I believe in the resurrection of the dead

Any excuse for a party!

A fresh start

Psychological warfare

Making mistakes

First things first

Remembering for now

What is truth?

A marriage made in heaven

Wanting and coveting

Generosity

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