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Interweave – Internet

How the digital world can help us worship at 6pm on Sunday the 29th of January we will be gathering in St Johns to use digital technology to worship together, and also explore ways in which access to the digital world can help us live out the Missio Dei, the mission of God. In the […]

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Forest Church

…with prayer

The view from the Crichton QFC on January the 15th, 2023 It had been a drich few days before we met. Record flooding levels in Dumfries saw businesses washed out, some perhaps beyond their ability to recover. I wasn’t sure if some of our proposed activities (follow the link to see the plan) would work […]

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Pelagius

To what extent is salvation given or worked out through living? I suspect that the issue of how “Grace” and “Works” relate to one another is an example of #SensingMystery, although like all mysteries it involves a confusion of certainty that keeps us going and awareness of the unknown so we have to keep asking […]

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#SensingChallenge

The experience of being challenged and moved by experiences including love, beauty, goodness, joy, compassion, injustice, evil, suffering, death.

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#SensingOtherness

The sentiment that humans are more than their physical elements. Some experiences are special. Life is more than just it’s physical components. There can be moments where we sense something that can be described as sublime. Mystics experience transcendence, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to explain it in a way which […]

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#SensingMeaningfulness

The ability to make connections or to see potential patterns in one’s life which give it meaning.

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#SensingValues

Attitudes and feelings about what is really important, what really matters.

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#SensingSpirituality Fresh Expressions

#SensingMystery

Experiences of awe, wonder and mystery about the natural world. Often also sensed when contemplating human achievement and for some divinity.

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Forest Church

Praying with…

Meet outside Crichton chapel at 2pm on January the 15th, 2023 “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely […]

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#SensingAwareness

Sensing a changed quality in awareness. Often described as the feeling of being ‘at one’ with nature, oneself and others. We often slip quickly into thinking about ‘things’, or thinking about or experience of things. #SensingAwareness is more about being in a state of awareness of direct experience, mindfulness. The Divine in the world, creating […]