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#BIGRead14: Litany for a New Day

Source: The Worship Cloud
Source: The Worship Cloud
Source: The Worship Cloud

#BIGRead14

You can tell I’m an ‘active doer’ as this line was the one that really stood out:

That we may be given the courage to work for economic
and social justice.
Lord of the dawn: Shine on your world.

but actually the rest of the poem deals with a  number of character traits e.g. patience, love, constancy, vision, etc…

Having ended up spending much of yesterday working through Passion Maps (still got about 10 pages to go!), re-focusing on the passions that are God-given and how I can use them well…

#Do1NiceThing: Spread the niceness on Facebook and Twitter – compliment some of your friends // I sometimes do this with postcards to people I haven’t seen face-to-face for a while. This seems like a nice idea – a bit of a week-long ‘follow Friday’!

Maggi Dawn

We can’t preach the gospel authentically and not get drawn into acts of compassion, but Jesus’ miracles weren’t an end to themselves; the kingdom of God isn’t just a social programme. The gospel leads to a radical personal commitment but it isn’t a self-improvement course; it leads to public action but it isn’t solely about political activism. Jesus wanted his disciples to grasp the whole picture.

The Kingdom of God is not about getting your physical/material needs met, but your spiritual needs.

Pam Webster

I love Pam’s blog, and today’s piece was very well timed for me:

We cram our lives with ‘experiences’ and ‘things’, but we rarely spend time with ourselves, or allow ourselves to think through where we are and who we are.  So often we avoid ourselves – the truth of ourselves.

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Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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