Thought for the week
Thought For The Week 8 March 2020
Currently our news is full of this new flu like virus, COVID 19 which may be causing some concern among you. It is in our nature to fear the unknown and media reports have a way of amplifying these fears. According to the Ministry of Health the likelihood of a widespread outbreak of this virus […]
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Thought For The Week March 1 2020
Brent and I had an overnight retreat at Te Waiora retreat centre in Hororata last Monday. It is a lovely place to be. A thin place. A place where you can feel close to God, and closer to your true self. It is a blessing to stay there. While we were there, there were two […]
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Thought for the Week – 23 February
Welcome to our services today, I’m glad you are making space in your week to come together for worship and fellowship. “Making Space” is our guiding theme for 2020, a year in which we want to make space for God in our lives in new ways, so that new things may be given room to […]
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Thought For The Week 16 February
As you may know, I am in Dunedin this week helping mum settle home from her stay at Burwood hospital. She is doing very well, although it is a bit of a whirlwind getting used to the new routine. While I was here I had the unexpected blessing of attending the ordination and induction of […]
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Thought For The Week 9 February 2020
This last week we have marked the occasion of the 180th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. While it was a world-leading agreement between the tangata whenua and the British Crown, the Treaty has a complicated history and over generations the Crown has failed to live up to the letter and the spirit […]
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Thought For The Week 2 February 2020
Many of us have enjoyed Shirley Murray’s hymns over the years. Her writing has always been thoughtful, challenging and inspiring. So it is with sadness but also with thankfulness that we remember her passing last Saturday, the 25th of January. This is what her great friend and collaborator Colin Gibson has shared with the Church: […]
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Thought For The Week 15 December 2019
Things are starting to gear up towards Christmas. The kids are finishing school, gifts are being wrapped, trees are being decorated, and there are strawberries everywhere. For many of us, this is a very full time of year. And, by full, I mean busy. We rush from one thing to the next, trying to get everything […]
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Thought For The Week 8 December 2019
The theme for the second Sunday in Advent is Peace. Our lesson today is from Isaiah 11 which presents a staggering vision of peace which will be brought about by ‘a shoot from the stump of Jesse’. This in itself is a picture of gritty survival. Imagine a tree stump; the tree is all but […]
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Thought For The Week 1 December 2019
We have come around to the Advent season again. Advent is the time of the year when we pause to reflect on the gifts that are given to us through the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Through him we have been given hope that stretches beyond our current circumstances. Peace that passes all understanding. […]
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Thought for the Week 24 November
Welcome to our special combined service this morning. Today we will welcome new members, make a Christmas cake and worship Christ the King! Today also marks the 10th anniversary of the amalgamation of Trinity, Chalmers, St Paul’s and St Stephen’s into Timaru Presbyterian Parish. Happy birthday TPP! What does it mean to be a member […]
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