Preach Magazine Issue 3 - Preaching and the Holy Spirit | Page 50

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View from the pew

What
are they
thinking?
Context:
Rural parish church
– part of a Local Ecumenical
Partnership (LEP); congregation of
Anglicans and Methodists
Service:
Parish Holy Communion, 10.30am

The vicar was battling the remains of a
heavy cold, but it was not evident in her
address. New to our group of parishes,
this was only the first or second time
most of us had heard her preach.

S

he launched without preamble
into Psalm 29 – H