WHY DID JESUS TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE VILLAGE? Sometimes our surroundings can stop us from meeting with Jesus and receiving His blessing.…
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If you look up the origins of the word “sincere” you will find it comes from two Latin words sine and cera. Together they…
I read a newspaper article this week which really annoyed me. It was by one of those well-publicised Anglican priests who really should have…
12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is…
Back in the 1970s I remember going with some friends to the Harvest Festival in the village of Stowmarket in Suffolk. Surrounded by open…
It was the great American preacher Billy Sunday who said that “the problem with sin is that people don’t take it seriously. People treat…
Richard Wurmbrand was a pastor in the persecuted Romanian Underground Church in 1940s-60s. He tells the story of an occasion when armed police broke…
Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this…
I read recently that there are three kinds of people. Those who make things happen. Those who watch things happen and those who are…
For a thousand years the people of Israel had been waiting for their Messiah. But when Jesus Christ the Son of God was revealed,…
Who does God care most about? Does God love us all equally? Or is there a special place in God’s heart for particular kinds…
All through Romans we have been learning about God’s wonderful way of salvation through grace in Jesus Christ. We have heard many times about…
ROMANS 8: 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger…
For some Christians, following Jesus brings suffering and struggle. For others being a believer means an easy life. But which way is it MEANT…
There in the wilderness meditating on the Book of Deuteronomy, that period of “the testing of God’s Son” confirmed to Jesus what it meant…
For two thousand years Christians have been praying that sick people will be healed. Sometimes God works a miracle and people receive physical healing.…
We have been looking at the testing of God’s son, that passage right at the beginning of Jesus’s ministry which is called the Temptations…
When did God last surprise you? When did God last answer your prayers even though you weren’t really expecting Him to? When did you…
We are looking at the events which occurred just after Jesus was baptised by john the Baptist and just before Jesus began His public…
What difference did becoming a Christian make to you? How did your life change when you first accepted Christ as your Saviour and Lord?…
We know the stories of Jesus’s birth. We know relatively little of how that baby grew up, except for one record in Luke’s gospel.…