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Proclaiming Christ in a time of opposition and opportunity
Despite being busy with evangelistic preaching, teaching and ministry, I make time to understand the world we live in. I need to because the challenge in evangelism is to present...
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Finding the Way on the Roundabout of Life
The most stressful thing about driving today is the modern mega roundabout. Drivers new and old can stress at the prospect of weaving their way through the congested race of...
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Keep the Faith
We all know people that have left the Christian faith. In thinking about this I am reminded of Aslan’s constant statement in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia books of the danger of focusing on...
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Autumn
God speaks to us through both his word and his world. Here in the Northern Hemisphere autumn is now well underway and in it I see a message from God....
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Innovation
Watching the Olympics, I was reminded of how Dick Fosbury transformed high jump events. He began his career taking the high jump in the traditional way: running at the bar...
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Heroes of the Faith: Rasalama of Madagascar
The history of global Christianity is full of little-known heroes who have been overlooked. One of these is Rasalama, the woman who was Madagascar’s first Christian martyr. The island of...
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‘God Bless You’
The other day I sneezed and heard the response, ‘God bless you.’ It set me thinking. Why do we say ‘God bless you’ or ‘bless you’ when someone sneezes? I...
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Do Not Worry
Did you know that most people’s anxiety is focused and preoccupied with 40% of things that will never happen, 30% of things relating to the past that can’t be changed,...
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Adventure
Sir Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer. On one expedition, his ship, The Endurance, got caught in pack ice and sank. He had to leave twenty-two men behind and go off...
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The Sunflower
Cloudy, rainy, chilly days in the middle of our British summer do not warm the heart. Recently, on such a gloomy day, Killy and I were given some sunflowers. We...
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What Would Jesus Do (WWJD)?
The WWJD notion has a long history: a notable example is Thomas à Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ – and that was 600 years ago. Today, however, there is some...
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Summer
The shelves are stacked with glossy prints of smiling, radiant and bikini-clad models, flightily skipping along yellow sandy beaches with perfectly styled hair flowing. One might strain hopefully for even...
