REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 46: Supplication strength! Pandemic helplessness reminds us that prayer is the wonderful privilege of the child of God. Being able to enter into our Father’s presence through our crucified and risen Saviour by the power and the presence of the Holy…
Turning the tide in Kalbarri for Jesus
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REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 35: The Common Good Our prayers were led on Sunday morning by one of our senior believers. Extempore of necessity, given his failing eyesight, and with the full benefit of a lifetime of personal and public prayer, both as a Presbyterian…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 34: Pandemic Prayer Last Sunday evening we prayed: O God, the protector of all that trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: increase and multiply upon us your mercy, that, with you as our ruler and guide,…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 13: A Prayer for mercy. The Book of Common Prayer contains some very realistic prayers. The one headed In the time of any plague or sickness is such a prayer. It is not found in our more recent Prayer Books, which…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 12: Contentment when it’s easy to be otherwise! We were at a zoom Morning Prayer on Friday when one of the members prayed a prayer for those who are working hard to be content in their circumstances. Understandably, the example was…
Pray for Sri Lanka
Lord’s Prayer ad banned from UK cinema chains by Digital Cinema Media for fear of causing offence A pre-Christmas advert promoting prayer has been banned from Britain’s biggest cinema chains for fear of causing offence, to the bewilderment of the Church of England. The 56-second advertisement features believers from various walks of life — including…