tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105873752012-02-12T13:13:45.067-08:00The North Chapel ParishesA site to share news between the three parishes of the North Chapel groupBobnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10587375.post-52819994319478857202008-12-30T09:40:00.000-08:002008-12-30T10:51:11.945-08:00Christmas is over!Glad to be done with the turkey? Can't wait to get the decorations down? Understandable, but if Christmas is only one day we miss the point.Whatever Christmas means to people it is an indisputable assurance that God and humankind belong together. Working out what that means is a lifetime's job. There's plenty of evidence and information, but it's difficult to get to grips with. The difficulty is Bobnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10587375.post-12315418961009767752008-10-28T03:26:00.001-07:002008-10-28T19:34:55.887-07:00Bits of the BibleLast week at St Helen's I talked about the joys/importance of being familiar with the Bible. But it’s haunted me since because I realise that apart from recommending that you use a guide of some sort, I didn’t really give any indication of how to do it.So – give myself a bit of mental exercise – provide some notes to a few purple passages. They'll be available on Grapevines and here.To me there’sBobnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10587375.post-83134311101416123722008-10-16T05:31:00.000-07:002008-10-16T06:03:12.947-07:00Money and all thatTuesday's meeting of treasurers and wardens was a very dignified affair with no-one getting audibly cross with anyone else! But the whole enterprise begged a number of questions.While we are being very reasonable about things, how can we get a bit of proportionality into what we are expecting from each parish? As things are - if a parish gives less one year that becomes the base point for future Bobnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10587375.post-72980969691267566002008-10-12T09:00:00.000-07:002008-10-16T05:25:53.421-07:00Grave thoughtsEnglish Heritage and others seem to be getting het up about gravestones rotting away or being laid flat. Seems that the "gloom and melancholy" which are part of the English character are in danger! I admit I can get all sentimental about old gravestones and spend too much of my time looking at them and reading the inscriptions. Many of them are superb examples of the art of a bygone age. But partBobnoreply@blogger.com0