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Willing For Whatever
I was recently reading John 6 and the account of Jesus feeding the five thousand. That’s five thousand men by the way – the women and children weren’t counted – so perhaps it should
Read More »Who is Your Shepherd? – a new look at Psalm 23
We all think we know Psalm 23. It is probably the most well-known of the Psalms and is regularly read or sung at all sorts of church services. It has a mesmerising beauty and
Read More »Are we losing our saltiness?
A recent study by academics at the University of Essex has revealed that Britons do not have as much integrity as they had ten years ago. The study interviewed a random sample of 2,000
Read More »Jesus is for life, not just for Christmas….
Christmas – it’s about more than a baby in a manger….. It’s easy at this time of the year to be swept up in the images conjured up by “Away in a Manger”. There’s
Read More »Boldly Humble or Humbly Bold? The Christian’s Identity Crisis.
I recently heard some teaching from Liverpudlian Evangelist Graham Jones that began to change my perception of myself, God and my identity. The main concept of the teaching was that the Christian quite often
Read More »An Open Invitation
Why and how should we invite people to church? In the Autumn of 1934 a travelling evangelist called Mordecai Ham was holding a series of revival meetings in Charlotte, South Carolina. A local youth
Read More »Who has the real X-Factor?
As another X-Factor series draws to a close we might envy the person on the screen. The judges have decided they have a unique quality that puts them above others. They have the mysterious
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