Back together

From the numerous phone calls that I’ve made during lockdown, I realise that there are many, many things that we, as individuals, have missed, and are looking forward to getting back to, but if you had to put them in order of desire I wonder what that order would look like? I ask the question […]

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A new normality

Perhaps one of the greatest challenges for many us to face as we go back out into the world is the fact that if you have lived out your life in Britain, then unless you are into your eighties you have had no personal experience of war in this land, no experience of real starvation, […]

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Two forward assurances

Firstly, I need to apologise: When we went into lockdown I sent out a number of blog postings relating to how we as Christians should come to terms with lockdown and what we should be looking to get out of it as those to whom God had promised that “all things will work together for […]

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How long will you live?

That surely is a clear example of an unanswerable question: my life is the hands of God and He alone knows my days. And it is here that we clearly see the distinction that we have already made between a proverb and a promise. Proverbs 3:16-18 reads: Pro 3:16 Long life is in her right […]

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To be healed

We live in a day and age when we recognise the great strides that have been made on many disciplines that have resulted in many people being healed who would otherwise have died, and that is never clearer than in this present pandemic. But the Bible speaks of the need of everyone to be be […]

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How sure is your hope?

Surely one of the greatest emotions is HOPE. If we could never anticipate anything good in the future how black life would be! Not surprisingly, amid all of the emotions discussed in Proverbs hope features frequently. One such example is: Pro 10:28 The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked […]

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Good words for the anxious

Sorry there was no post yesterday – we took a day off in place of the day we had planned for Sue’s birthday which was prevented by the funeral. The Bible clearly speaks against being anxious. Jesus famously spoke against “being anxious for your life” in what we call the Sermon on the Mount. He […]

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