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Ever Changing Times!
Read more: Ever Changing Times!“Don‘t long for the good old days. This is not wise.” Ecclesiastes 7:10, NLT “Do not say, ‘Why is it that the earlier days were better than these?‘ For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.” Ecclesiastes 7:10, Baker OT Commentary The way we see the past, the present and the future determines our…
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Angelology
Read more: AngelologyAngels are everywhere! Or at least, everywhere in pop songs, children’s literature, films and Valentines cards. They’ve even been in a string of recent Cambray sermons. Yet they hardly seem to fit with our term’s theme, Grow Up, Grow Deep in Christ, despite the Bible’s 196 references across 34 books. Or do they? Angels, a…
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Fear God, question experience!
Read more: Fear God, question experience!How do we know what we know? Through experience? Or through ‘fear of the LORD’? Such philosophical musings on the nature of knowledge (‘epistemology’) may seem out of place in a church magazine article, yet not in the Bible. As we use our morning series to investigate the fear of the LORD in…
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Who You Should Vote For – Revealed !
Read more: Who You Should Vote For – Revealed !With the general election just days away, you may be feeling excited about the chance to engage in the democratic process. Alternatively, you may be feeling numbed by the wall-to-wall media coverage, as parties attempt to win your support. Perhaps you’re feeling both. The Evangelical Alliance recently polled more than 2000 evangelical Christians in the…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Bible
Read more: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The BibleIn the last week, have you done any of the following: eaten pork sausage, worn clothes made of two types of fabric, come before God wearing glasses or shaved? If so, you have surely violated the eternal and unchanging Law of the LORD. Or !maybe that’s not quite right. But how do we interpret and…
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Milk or Meat?
Read more: Milk or Meat?Are you a milky Christian or a meaty one? The infant formula kind or a steak-on-the-plate believer? Recently I felt more than a little chastised by the tone of the writer to the Hebrews, who gets frustrated with his readers in Hebrews 5:11 – 6:4 for still living on spiritual milk – the foundational…
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The World Cup – a matter of life and death?
Read more: The World Cup – a matter of life and death?By the time you read this, England’s World Cup dream in Brazil will be over. Finished. Done and dusted. After the obligatory period of national mourning, national moaning begins. If there is a silver lining, it is that we can now spend more time exercising rather than watching sport on TV. For others, we can’t…
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The End Is Just The Beginning !
Read more: The End Is Just The Beginning !This summer term we will spend time on Sundays looking at both the last book of the Bible as well as the beginning three chapters of the first. For anyone wanting to engage more with some of the key themes in the early part of Genesis, a couple of options spring to mind. One could…
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Speaking of heaven (and the other place) !
Read more: Speaking of heaven (and the other place) !‘Heaven is a place, a place where nothing ever happens’. So sang the Talking Heads in 1979. But how would we know one way or the other? As believers we go to the Bible to understand how God has intervened in history and to know His will for today, but God’s written Word also illuminates…
