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Gary Hopkins

@gzhop.bsky.social

author + preacher + musician ✝️ God Loves You 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️ Jesus gives life in all its fulness 🥰 🥳 Faith is liberating 🎉 garyhopkins.net/social

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Gary Hopkins @gzhop.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

For International Women’s Day #internationalwomensday

I give thanks for women

I give thanks for women.
For women who have questioned
what others called natural.
For women who have refused
the narrow shapes prepared for them.
For women who have widened the world.

I give thanks
for courage that would not stay quiet,
for truth that would not stay hidden,
for lives that have said:
there is more room than this.

And because of that,
the world has started to open.

Because women have challenged
what was fixed into rule,
others have found breath.
Others have found space.

Even men
have been given more freedom
to step beyond the stiff costume handed to them,
to lay down the old performance,
to become more honest,
more tender,
more fully alive.

And still,
so much remains to be done.

There are old expectations
that cling on.
Old fears
that still police our lives.
Old patterns
that keep trying to tell us
who we are meant to be.

So I give thanks
for women whose strength
has not only changed their own lives,
but has helped make life safer
for others to be themselves.

And I pray for courage
to keep widening the world -
until nobody is trapped
by the roles they were handed,
and each of us
has more room to live
with truth,
with gentleness,
with freedom.

Amen.

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Gary Hopkins @gzhop.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Who did Jesus really condemn? Performative religion. Matthew 23 is a warning to religion that looks holy but dodges justice, mercy, and faithfulness. #Jesus #InclusiveFaith #Justice

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Gary Hopkins @gzhop.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Many of you will be thinking ahead to services and activities after Christmas. I've put together some free resources to help those of you leading worship or groups. garyhopkins.net/music/not-a-... #christmas #epiphany #prayers #preachers #worship

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Not a Story Wrapped in Comfort

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Gary Hopkins @gzhop.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I’m excited and a bit nervous, but my book is finally out: Priming the Lectionary: Advent, Christmas & Epiphany (Year A). Prayers, meditations, creative prompts to help people prepare worship that makes room for life and the whole community. Available via Holyvity.com #prayer #lectionary #worship

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Gary Hopkins @gzhop.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Just did gym. Proud. Gimme the strength to do it again 👌

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Well, since we blinked and we're well into the 700s, let's raise the stakes: if we get to 1000 followers we'll put our followers into a (virtual) hat and pick one to win an SCM book OF THEIR CHOICE 📚

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Gary Hopkins @gzhop.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

What a bundle of joy… #puppy #goldendoodle

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Gary Hopkins @gzhop.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

What has my life come to. I’ve just watched Paul Mescal eating hot wings.

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Gary Hopkins @gzhop.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I love attending local events and discovering local organisations and individuals doing amazing things. Lovely little art calendar supporting MIND… and a new contact to give me advice when I’ve braved using my watercolours. Suffering from artists’ procrastination.