Church Dinner

At CCB, we start every church year with our annual church dinner. We really must come up with a more exciting name than that! Was it the Corinthians who called their meals a ‘love feast’? That could work…
Every year it’s a battle to get people there, usually because I’ve been too late in sending out [...]

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Naked Church!

I’m having a good time thinking where this will turn up in the search engines. But naked church is really nothing more risque than church stripped to the bare essentials. We did it on Sunday. We didn’t choose to. We had to. It was ‘forced’ upon us by circumstances.
When Rufus and I got to the [...]

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Six Things to Bring to Church

I was on holiday last Sunday. But we still went to church. In fact I went twice! To our own church. We were back in Balham and I couldn’t keep away. I missed them. But I dressed in attire that made it clear that though physically I may be in their midst, emotionally I was [...]

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Feeling Fringy

A while ago one of our mission partners included a prayer request for their evening congregation. He asked that God might break up one or two cliques that had formed.
It was a bold request. It was a great request. And it gave me pause for thought.
Word then reached me from a source I trust, that [...]

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