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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. Author Archives: Peter Somervell. 21 years of Luke. March 10, 2017. Last weekend we finally celebrated Luke’s 21. I know there were a number of people who would have like to have been there so I’m posting my speech that I gave (with Luke’s permission). I think sums up our Luke pretty accurately. Have fun! His mother liked the sound of James. His father leaned toward Luke. He doesn’t look like a James his father said.
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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. Trading the Police badge for a bible. January 24, 2017. The Tasman Leader (the local ‘rag’ here in Richmond) caught up with it and published a story on him. I’ve taken a snapshot of it so you know what to look for. Simply click the link below and go to page 4. And then use the magnifying tool on the side bar to make for easier reading. It’s well worth a read. I think it’s going to be a great 3 years for us all. So how di...
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A Christmas gift with a difference | Feeling God's Pleasure
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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. A Christmas gift with a difference. December 16, 2016. Last Sunday our Sunday Service was cancelled, but it was for a good reason. It’s the day when we have Christmas with our community. Grace Church. Does this every year, in the lead up to Christmas. After years of trying to get people along to a church service they decided to try something different. They would throw a Christmas Party and invite everyone to come. We al...
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Some thoughts on Pastoral Visitation | Feeling God's Pleasure
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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. Some thoughts on Pastoral Visitation. December 2, 2016. Their sheep. They know which ones are strong and which are weak; which need more care and which don’t. This is a personal, rather than acquired knowledge. You’d think that was a given. Unfortunately in so many cases, it is not. We must labour to be acquainted, not only with the persons, but with the state of all our people, with their inclinations and conversations;...
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About | Feeling God's Pleasure
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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. I am a pastor, a husband and a father of four adult children. I was wondrously saved at the 19 from a life of brokenness and bondage to sin and self. Jesus set me free from all that for which I am eternally grateful. My life is no longer my own, but his to be used for his purpose and glory. 3 thoughts on “ About. October 19, 2013 at 2:29 pm. October 1, 2014 at 12:41 am. October 1, 2014 at 9:30 am. Enter your comment here.
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25 Years | Feeling God's Pleasure
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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. December 21, 2016. This day, 25 years ago, I looked my beautiful bride in the eye and made a vow before God and men to have and to hold her from that day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part. And I haven’t regretted a day of it. An excellent wife who can find? Well, it certainly. Been that. And not all of it has been plain sailin...
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Sickness, Suffering and the Glory of God | Feeling God's Pleasure
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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. Sickness, Suffering and the Glory of God. November 18, 2016. Well you cry out to God for help. You tell him what is going on. You say, Lord Jesus, if ever I needed you, it’s now. And what happens? This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it. (11:4). The first thing Jesus does when he hears the news of Lazarus’ sickness is he puts in relation to the g...
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When the Mountains Move | Feeling God's Pleasure
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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. When the Mountains Move. December 9, 2016. The following is based on a transcript of a message I delivered to. Last Sunday on how Christians are to think rightly about the recent earthquakes in NZ as well as natural disasters as a whole. You can listen to that. Two significant events occurred in our country recently that have got people talking and attracted a lot of media attention. That’s the first event. The secon...
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Christmas and the end of performance | Feeling God's Pleasure
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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. Christmas and the end of performance. December 23, 2016. But everyone loved it. No one cared that is wasn’t perfect. After all it’s Christmas. This got me thinking: isn’t this the whole point of Christmas? Isn’t this why Jesus came? For our sake he [God] made him [Jesus] to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21). What does this mean in real life? It means you...
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Angry at God for not existing | Feeling God's Pleasure
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Feeling God's Pleasure. Reflections on life, family, ministry and my gospel journey. Angry at God for not existing. November 25, 2016. A recent post caught my attention the other day. It was called: 9 Things You Should Know About C. S. Lewis. I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world. But it’s a good contradictio...