Un monsieur fort sympathique est à la recherche d’une paroisse un peu libérale, un peu inspirante, en Charente Maritime. Qui saura lui répondre ? GC
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pasteur Louis Pernot 29 janvier 2016, temple de l’Étoile Évangile de Jean 11.1-44 J’ai eu tort de choisir ce texte de la résurrection de Lazare. Je voulais remonter le moral à une pauvre famille deuil, trouver paroles réconfortantes, une bonne ...
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Lors du service de consolation et d’espérance qui a eu lieu le 29 janvier au temple de l’Étoile à l’occasion du décès du pasteur Raphaël Picon, son fils a rendu le témoignage que voici : C’est dans les mots de mon ...
Lire la suite...The Prologue of John’s Gospel
Louis Pernot translated by Sara MacVane What we call the “prologue” to John’s Gospel is a wonderful text, of a very different style to the other Gospels. It is poetic, lovely, profound, theological, and also a bit mysterious. It ...
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James Woody Translation Louise Thunin To the question, « What should we die for ? », Biblical texts are able to substitute the question « What should we live for ? » By presenting situations where people can no longer cope with the world as ...
Lire la suite...« SHE » or « HE »
by Laurent Gagnebin Translation Louise Thunin I’m sitting in the subway. Next to me and opposite me are five charming young ladies, very stylish ; one of them is reading a book from Flammarion’s « Champs » collection. I make a fruitless ...
Lire la suite...The Roads to Exile
Jean-Paul Augier Translation Canon Tony Dickinson For several months the huge influx of migrants, fleeing war and coming to seek refuge in Europe has provoked several comment pieces in the media. Protestants, at least, ought to remember ...
Lire la suite...Journey in Armenia
Agnès Adeline-Schaeffer Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Armenia is the first state to have adopted Christianity as its official religion. But others religions are also present in this country which has very close links with France. I went ...
Lire la suite...Narrow Gate
Dominique Hernandez At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, pairs of images are linked: two gates, two ways, two trees and, right at the end of the sermon, two houses. It is then about recognising and choosing ...
Lire la suite...Flesh and Spirit
Laurent Gagnebin Translation Canon Tony Dickinson Innumerable texts and songs by Christian authors set flesh and spirit in opposition. They imagine that in this way they are being faithful to the injunctions of the New Testament, more particularly to ...
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