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Who do you say I am? Fifteenth Sunday after trinity Mark 8:27-38

“But what about you?”

“Who do you say I am?”

Asked the saviour to the disciples

Asked the saviour to the thieves

Asked the saviour to the tax collector

Asked the saviour to the refugees

Asked the saviour to the House of Lords

Asked the saviour to the surgeons

Asked the saviour to the saviour to the journalists

Asked the saviour to the lobbyists

Asked the saviour to the CEO’s

Asked the saviour to the workers

Asked the saviour to the slaves

Asked the saviour to the addicted

Asked the saviour to the deluded

Asked the saviour to the church goers

Asked the saviour to the arms dealers

Asked the saviour to the transgendered

Asked the saviour to the shepherds

Asked the saviour to the scared

Asked the saviour to the violent

Asked the saviour to the victims

Asked the saviour to the perpetrators

Asked the saviour to tourists

Asked the saviour to the priests

Asked the saviour to the artists

Asked the saviour to the dictators

Asked the saviour to the world

Asked the saviour to us all

Lectionary Image for Fifteenth Sunday after trinity Mark 8:27-38. The image is called, "who do you say I am?"

Here is a thought for the Lectionary reading for next Sunday morning, Mark 8:27-38

Lighting Beacons

Myself, Josh Walker and Dot Woods have spent the last month or so, working on a collaborative liturgical resource. It's certainly not a complete resource, but we're really excited as to where we have taken it.

There is a book.

There is a website.

Maybe one day there will be an app.

The idea is to produce a simple, easily accessible book/online portfolio of liturgies that will lead people through the week.

We're at the beta testing phase - if you like.

But as it stands I am excited to see what God will do with this.

http://lighting-beacons-liturgy.com/

http://www.lulu.com/shop/tim-watson-and-josh-walker-and-dot-woods/lighting-beacons-a-liturgy-for-life/paperback/product-22233858.html

New Parish Conference

Really excited to be sharing at the New Parish Conference in October. It will be a great time of stories, challenges, worship, discussions and many many missional musings.

News from me

Now seems as good a time as any to announce that at the end of June 2015 my contract as Pioneer Minister of Restore will expire and is not being renewed. My licence to minister also expires at the same time.

It is also pertinent to add that Clare and I had hoped that I would be able to continue as Pioneer Minister of Restore in a Self-Supporting Minister / Non-Stipendiary Minister capacity. However my request to become self-supporting has been denied.

Clare and I look to the future to what we will be doing and where we will be going next. Meanwhile, I continue to work towards my dream of being a successful Beyonce Knowles tribute act.

Your prayers are appreciated at this time.

Moments

In passing seconds
Hours
And glances
Imagined romances
Never-happened-dances
Life works
Its way
Through time's vein
To this day
God's way
With ticking seconds
On big old clocks
Telling stories
With hands on their
Ten thousandth revolve
Hours unfold
Stories are told
Truth's sold
Lives lived bold
Time enthroned
Existence honed
Lived alone
And in the presence
Of hosts
Memory's ghosts
Future's toasts
Words spoken
Shouted uttered and muttered
Tears shed
New life squealing
Leaves falling
Hours passing
Love and mourning
Dust and calling
Growing falling
Moment's passings
Moment's graspings
Moment's callings

#cmpfire

I feel like the following post, probably needs a bit of an introduction. I'm not usually much of a "swearer" in poetry, having only ever used one expletive in one version of one of my other poems. This poem was written as an ongoing response to an intense 24 hour period of reflection with a group of practitioners. It is in some ways, a summation of where we, as a group feel many of the missional and ecclesiological issues of the church are at. The poem was written in the midway point of the conference and shares the deeply held frustrations, limitations and challenges facing the body of Christ. Keep watching for more from #cmpfire.