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Be strong and courageous

God, I am not sure I am ready to be strong and courageous.

Chris continues to reflect on his experiences of alcohol addiction, healing and recovery in week six of our series. We believe it is important to be open and honest about who we are; truthful about our journeys of discipleship and how rediscovering that radical love fuels our recovery

Please come with us on this journey.

There are those…

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I'm scared of what you think

I’m scared of what you think

God I am so scared of people finding out my secrets. Paralysed by fear, worrying that if people truly knew me, I will be humiliated and abandoned.

Chris continues to reflect on his experiences of alcohil addiction, healing and recovery in week five of our series. We believe it is important to be open and honest about who we are; truthful about our journeys of discipleship and how rediscovering…

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A Psalm for When I am Afraid

“The Lord is my light and my salvation—

    whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life—

    of whom shall I be afraid?” – Psalm 27

God I’m terrified.

Terrified that I will be found out.

Everyone will know I’m a fraud.

I hide in darkness.

Shrouded in secrecy.

But there is a dim light,

Shining on the path before me.

Will I take it?

Can I take it?

Guide my steps, O God.

Take my hand.

H…

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Fearing Fear Less

In this week four of our  series focusing on our experiences of addictions and of healing and recovery Chris reflects on his experiences of getting to know and understand himself better through Step four  which asks that people make a searching and fearless moral inventory.

As addicts we believe it is important to be open and honest about who we are; truthful about our journeys of discipleship…

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In Recovery we need a Big God

In Recovery we need a Big God

  This week we continued our 12 week series focusing on our experiences of healing and recovery from addiction. This song from Florence and the Machine kept springing to our mind.  As we reflected on our recovery it was clear that to be restored we need a Big God.

Read back over our reflections from this week

Chris  offered a…

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A Psalm of Fearless Trust in God

A Psalm of Fearless Trust in God

Here is our third psalm in our series on recovery and addiction. Based on Psalm 27 it following on from our blog earlier in the week Handing over the reins

The psalmist in their darkness, searches for light and hope, reaching out towards God.

Psalm 27, like other psalms has an authenticity that fits with our own commitment to be open and honest about who we are and how our journeys of…

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Handing over the reins

Handing over the reins

This is our third week in this  12 week series focusing on our experiences of healing and recovery. Chris Last week reflected on Step two Restore us to Sanity and Alli added a modern psalm Psalm 133

As addicts we believe it is important to be open and honest about who we are; truthful about our journeys of discipleship and how rediscovering that radical love fuels our recovery.  Please come with…

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Psalm 133

Our second psalm in our series on recovery and addiction is based on Psalm 133

Psalmists confess, cry out, and grapple with God. Their writings have an authenticity that fits with our own commitments to be open and honest about who we are and how our journeys of discipleship fuel our recovery.

This Second psalm accompanies our earlier blog post Restore us to sanity?

Please come with us on this…

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Restore us to sanity?

Restore us to sanity?

Last week we introduce a 12 week series focusing on our experiences of healing and recovery.

Chris began by reflecting on his experiences of a 12-step recovery program with A powerless and unmanageable life

Alli followed with a modern psalm stranger to myself (a first step psalm)

As addicts we believe it is important to be open and honest about who we are; truthful about our journeys of…

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Readings for Sunday 15th April 2018

As we prepare for the third Sunday after Easter we invite you to read with us

Acts 3:12-19

Psalm 4

1 John 3:1-7

Luke 24:36b-48

Acts 3:12-19 3:12 When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, “You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? 3:13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of…

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Recovery with faith

This week we posted the first of a 12 week series of reflections focusing on our experiences of addiction, healing, and recovery.

We believe a radical, transformative gospel rooted in a love can free each of us offering forgiveness, healing, and recovery.

As part of this seris Chris will reflect on his experiences of 18 years of recovery and a 12 step program.

And each week Alli will post a…

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A Stranger to Myself (A first step psalm)

We believe a radical, transformative gospel rooted in a love can free each of us offering forgiveness, healing, and recovery.

Earlier this week we posted the first of a a12 week series of reflections focusing on our experiences of addiction, healing and recovery.

Each we will post a modern reworking of a psalm to accompany the reflection.

Psalms often grapple with God, they have an opened and…

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A powerless and unmanageable life

A powerless and unmanageable life

When we first envisioned Holy Rude last October, we wanted a space to wrestle with radical discipleship rooted in the transformative and provocative ways of God. We believe in a Jesus who challenged authority and the oppressive traditions of his time. A Jesus who befriended the “wrong” people, those living in the margins. The poor struggling to survive, shamed and outcast by society. Instead,…

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A powerless and unmanageable life

A powerless and unmanageable life

When we first envisioned Holy Rude last October, we wanted a space to wrestle with radical discipleship rooted in the transformative and provocative ways of God. We believe in a Jesus who challenged authority and the oppressive traditions of his time. A Jesus who befriended the “wrong” people, those living in the margins. The poor struggling to survive, shamed and outcast by society. Instead,…

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Readings for the Coming Sunday 8th (July 2018)

Another new week and God invites us to hold close to our hearts the needs of our communities, and our world.

We invite you, come reflect with us on these readings for the coming week.

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 and Psalm 48

Ezekiel 2:1-5 and Psalm 123

2 Corinthians 12:2-10

Mark 6:1-13

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 5:1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, “Look, we are your bone and…

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Who Touched me?

In Mark 5 there are two faith stories. The first a woman scared by rejection, stigma and pain. In faith she touches the cloak of Jesus, it’s an act of courage and hope, she believes that’s all she need do to be well again.

The second, despite all the stories of miracles amongst them, the crowd laugh and doubt Jesus. He is to late to heal a child who has already died. At yet he does.

We won’t…

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Psalm 130 I Wait

I don’t know about anyone else, but I have certainly in the past(and have hear others), found myself asking why does God allow suffering? Why doesn’t God sort it? Suffering isn’t fair; death isn’t fair. I blamed God for death and suffering.

Well the Book of Wisdom clearly says “God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living”. And I am sure that the same goes for…