Pastoral Ponderings » curacy http://vasbyburnie.net The view from the Church Hill Vicarage (of St Bartholomew's, Wednesbury) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:00:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A Remembrance Day Sermon http://vasbyburnie.net/2007/11/29/a-remembrance-day-sermon/ http://vasbyburnie.net/2007/11/29/a-remembrance-day-sermon/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:25:00 +0000 Tim V-B http://vasbyburnie.net/?p=36 Earlier this month I preached on Remembrance Day (which was a Sunday). My text was Amos 5:24 “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”

It was part of a series on Amos, otherwise the passage isn’t the most obvious choice!

You can find it here courtesy of Google Docs.

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As mentioned a moment ago, I’m in the middle of clearing up my Wycliffe room. This involves sorting out not only three years of lecture notes, but also sermon notes from St Andrew the Great (the church I went to as a student), notes from CICCU days, All Souls days, and two years of Cornhill Training Course notes. Throw in all my paperwork from working at the British Red Cross, C-of-E selection conferences, etc and we have a huge paperwork mountain!

But, to keep myself sane, I’m listening to some Blues Traveler music. Hmm, must go see whether their website has changed since I last visited it, 4 years ago. I’m quite a fan of blues music and discovered these guys through the Blues Brothers 2000 movie. You can’t beat some rock ‘n’ harmonica to keep one going!

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A few hours ago I tried on my new clerical shirts and – for the first time in my life ever – slipped in the dog collar. Hmm. Maybe this Vicar-thing is going ahead after all. So, time to start a blog. Welcome to what could be a compendium of wise insights, provoking posts, amusing links and an insight into my brain. Alternatively, it could become yet another Web 2.0 narcissistic time-wasting effort at self-promotion. You, dear reader, are about to find out.

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