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Are you “Moved”?
By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household… (Hebrews 11:7) Some time ago, whilst doing some work in our
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 »Beating the Winter Blues
It’s that time of year again; cold, wet and grey – and whilst the boiler may be pumping out red hot heat, you may be left feeling fed up and blue. The winter blues
Read More »Fathering the Fatherless
Recently I read a Spanish story about a man named Paco and his father. I secretly took a liking to the sound of this name and completed a little research into its English translation.
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 »Hold the Line
It was whilst I was worshiping in church one Sunday morning; the band was thumping, the congregation were singing, hands in the air with the Holy Spirit moving across the room. Then I heard
Read More »Law & Grace (an observation)
I recently came across this humorous picture on a social networking site, at least on first glance I thought it was humorous, until I took the time to truly examine the real message it
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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