https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2014/01/17/the-52-hertz-church/ Reflections on preaching, communication and story Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:00:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2014/01/17/the-52-hertz-church/#comment-2073 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:00:12 +0000 http://richardlittledale.me.uk/?p=9970#comment-2073 […] have now preached the last in my series of sermons on the ‘vocabulary of faith’ – looking at those words which are used both by the church and the world at large in […]

]]> https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2014/01/17/the-52-hertz-church/#comment-2072 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:18:06 +0000 http://richardlittledale.me.uk/?p=9970#comment-2072 […] which they share with the world at large. You can read more about the intentions of the series here.  Having preached on ‘life’ last week, this week the subject was ‘death’. […]

]]> https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2014/01/17/the-52-hertz-church/#comment-2071 Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:54:13 +0000 http://richardlittledale.me.uk/?p=9970#comment-2071 […] working through a series of sermons on the ‘vocabulary of faith’. Those of you who read ’52 hertz church ‘will know that I am especially keen to explore those words which we share with the wider […]

]]> https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2014/01/17/the-52-hertz-church/#comment-2070 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:50:04 +0000 http://richardlittledale.me.uk/?p=9970#comment-2070 […] ‹ The 52 Hertz church […]

]]> https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2014/01/17/the-52-hertz-church/#comment-2069 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:39:38 +0000 http://richardlittledale.me.uk/?p=9970#comment-2069 Sad story about the whale. The Church is fond of linguistic ghettos. We forced Latin on ourselves for most of our history. We force Victorian jargon on many of our congregations today. But the language flow is both ways. More and more songs incorporate contemporary slang and ways of speaking. The fact is Jesus probably spoke the Aramaic of his day as well as Hebrew and probably Koine Greek. To reach all people, the Church must be resolutely multilingual.

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