The Rev William Stewart, Grace all the way !

New Year New Horizons

2012-01-30T16:20:00.001Z

Have you ever stood on a beach, maybe early in the morning, and looked overto where the sea and sky meets? (Sounds like an advert for north Norfolk!)You see the horizon, and ,whatever you may be feeling, it reminds youthat there is a lot more out there besides your little life, no matter how full ofexcitement or full of sorrow it is. Seeing the vastness of a horizon, can lead usout beyond

Alpha is a Great course!

2011-11-09T08:01:00.004Z

We just had a lovely day away with our Alpha for seniors group. There were 18,(some couldn't come because of illness)It was was so good to see a group of people who had committed themselves to looking more at the Good News, and to see a genuine hunger in them for the presence and reality of God's presence.I guess it made me think a fresh about how many times people have criticised the course.

announcement of engagement

2011-10-27T23:05:00.002+01:00

Mr M Hill and Miss A Stewart.The engagement is announced betweenMarcus, son of Mr and Mrs Jeremy Hill of Peyton Hall, Suffolkand Anna, daughter of Rev and Mrs William Stewart, The Vicarage Loddon, Norfolk.WOOP WOOP!!!!!!!! JOY, CAN"T WAIT!!! GOD IS GOOD !!

Pray for the older generation

2011-10-16T17:47:00.008+01:00

God constantly surprises us. We arrived in this beautiful area of Loddon in South Norfolk, in the Chet Valley. We have found a congregation of people who love God and want to grow in Him. Too often we think that elderly and rural are a combination which means the end of the road for live and seeing growth and exciting Faith. Not so. If we look at the scriptures we are often confronted with the

The call is in the Journey

2008-02-27T09:34:00.003Z

Brendans Boat originally uploaded by JeyfellMy understanding of the early Irish Monks is that some of them (at least-the Evangelists among them) made their superiors so mad.As the Spring and Summer came round,something in them called them to head off and start bringing the Good news to all kinds of places outside the monastic settlement!! How undisciplined of them!The whole theme of Journey has

Getting God`s Perspective Daily

2008-01-30T11:02:00.000Z

Prayer that is regular confounds both self-importance and the wiles of the world.It is so easy for good people to confuse their own work with the work of creation.It is so easy to come to believe that what we do is so much more important than what we are.It is so easy to simply get too busy to grow...To committ ourselves to this century`s demand for product and action until the product consumes

2008-01-23T11:46:00.000Z

Life gets like this sometimes!

Listening without fear-a lesson we need to learn

2008-01-16T11:34:00.000Z

It is such a sad thing at a time when the "Evangelical " world has been afforded so many valuable opportunities to do good,and to express Grace that there is this constant undermining of those who do not think the same way or handle scriptures exactly the same way as I do. .The fundamentally Christian perspective of valuing and pursuing reconciliation,and not putting up boundarys and walls,seems

Church in Ireland can still discover more

2008-01-04T17:08:00.000Z

I was reading JR Woodwards site the other day,as he was reviewing the very good book by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger on emerging Churches.It has made me think again about a number of things.I was reading somewhere recently that as Evangelicals(or whatever) we are very good at reading the bible or listening to God for our own lives,but we are not so good at listening to our culture-or more

Don`t mean to preach,just putting thoughts together

2008-01-01T15:08:00.000Z

Like all of us I guess, I have been thinking about the new year.How much of a God given opportunity it is and how we are gifted each year with a significant moment .We get to look back and then let go of a year that has passed,and which we cannot change.We can stop and look towards a new opportuntiy,a year that pocessess so many possibilities,yet all very much unknown.We have no control over what

Some Great words of Wisdom

2007-12-30T20:31:00.001Z

Carlo Carretto wrote some great truths in his book,"Letters from the Desert "When the flood of pain has passed over the soul,what remains alive can be considered genuine.Certainly not much remains. Often it is reduced to a thin shrub.But on this the dove of the Holy Spirit may rest to pour out his grace.It is reduced to a "Yes" murmered among tears and anguish,but eched by the all powerful " yes

Heading towards another New Year

2007-12-28T17:17:00.001Z

Thought over these next days I would write some thoughts I have found important.I want to remember what God has spoken and to pray that this wisdom is inculcated in me in whatever comes in this next year. Hope they are helpful to anyone who may read."We must allow our appetite for infinity to dislodge us whenever we are inclined to settle down and call it a day"...Simon TugwellHungering and

It can be hard to live it out

2007-10-15T11:01:00.000+01:00

The last thing any of us want is for things to change in a way we cannot control. Indeed some don`t want to change at all.Well I liked what Walter Bruggeman wrote in his book,"Hopeful Imagination""Jeremiah`s vitality comes precisley from his passionate conviction about the power of God to work a newness in the zero hour of loss and exile." Certainly for me it is something I always need to know in

Blog in process of being created

2007-10-14T22:37:00.000+01:00

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