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  • "Types" of Christ (6)
  • @ Orchard Baptist Church Colchester (3)
  • 1 Corinthians (13)
  • 1 Peter (13)
  • 2 Corinthians (18)
  • 2 Peter (3)
  • Abraham (6)
  • Academic Materials (4)
  • Act Justly (7)
  • Acts 1 – 8 (15)
  • Acts 9-28 (17)
  • Advent 2020 (5)
  • Amos (4)
  • Articles from Haven News (1)
  • Bible Study Notes (17)
  • Christian living (17)
  • Christmas (27)
  • Colossians (9)
  • Continue in what you have learned and believed (19)
  • Daniel (9)
  • David (8)
  • Deuteronomy (15)
  • Easter (30)
  • Elijah and Elisha (11)
  • Ephesians (14)
  • Ethics (1)
  • Evangelistic Sermons (10)
  • Events (1)
  • Everyday Christian Living (17)
  • Exile and Restoration (12)
  • Exodus (2)
  • Ezekiel (4)
  • Faith (1)
  • Family Services (2)
  • Following Jesus (8)
  • Galatians (7)
  • Genesis – In The Beginning (8)
  • Gideon (4)
  • God's Amazing Plan of Salvation (5)
  • Hebrews (13)
  • Holy Spirit (29)
  • hope (2)
  • hope and love (2)
  • Hope in troubled times (33)
  • Hosea (6)
  • Isaac and Jacob (9)
  • Isaiah (15)
  • Jesus's Final Week (4)
  • John's Gospel (38)
  • Joseph (8)
  • Joshua (8)
  • Knowing God Better (8)
  • Last Things (6)
  • Learning to pray (9)
  • Lent Reflections (1)
  • Letters of John (10)
  • Letters to the Seven Churches (8)
  • love (1)
  • Luke on discipleship (12)
  • Make me a channel of your peace (4)
  • Mark's Gospel (28)
  • More Academic Presentations (8)
  • Parables (20)
  • Pastoral Letters to Timothy and Titus (10)
  • Pastoral Sermons (17)
  • Philippians (8)
  • Praying the Lord's Prayer (6)
  • Prepared to Answer (27)
  • Proverbs (4)
  • Psalms (26)
  • Ready to meet the Son (6)
  • Recent Sermons (7)
  • Revelation (6)
  • Romans (22)
  • Science and faith (5)
  • Sermons on Prayer (1)
  • Simulations (1)
  • Spiritual pathways (2)
  • Spiritual warfare (13)
  • Ten Commandments (8)
  • The Armour of God (5)
  • The gifts of the Holy Spirit (7)
  • The Moral Maze (8)
  • The Next Step 2020 (4)
  • The seed of the woman (4)
  • The Sermon on the Mount (7)
  • The Testing of God's Son (1)
  • The way to the cross (7)
  • The Whole Story (10)
  • The Wilderness Years (11)
  • Uncategorized (77)
  • Upside-Down Kingdom – the Beatitudes (9)
  • Video Sermons (9)
  • We believe (11)
  • What could I say? (9)
  • What is salvation (10)
  • What is the church? Acts 2:42 (3)
  • Work rest and play (5)
  • Worship (4)

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Adoring prayer

Posted on February 13, 2011

It was 37 years ago in the Whitsun Holiday of 1973 that God first revealed just how great He is to me. I was…

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Posted in Learning to pray
peter

Miracles and Hospitality

Posted on February 13, 2011

What kind of Christian are you? Some Christians are deeply spiritual. Some others are incredibly practical. Some Christians spend all their time reading their…

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Posted in Abraham
peter

God’s covenant with Abraham – Genesis 17

Posted on February 6, 2011

The word covenant appears more than 300 times in the Bible. Throughout both Old and New Testaments, God’s relationship with men and women is…

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Posted in Abraham
peter

Prayer changes us

Posted on January 31, 2011

Prayer changes things. But prayer also changes us. And the more we learn about prayer the more we will realise how important it is…

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Posted in Learning to pray
peter

Praying “Just as I am”

Posted on January 23, 2011

A seventeenth- century Roman Catholic Frenchman named Francois Fenelon wrote these words about prayer. “Tell God all that is in your heart, as one…

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Posted in Learning to pray
peter

Abram in Egypt – does the end justify the means?

Posted on January 16, 2011

There is an unspoken assumption in many approaches to morality and ethics. “The end justifies the means.” As long as the eventual outcome is…

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Posted in Abraham
peter

Learning to Ask

Posted on January 16, 2011

Our son David plays the saxophone. He’s had lessons for quite a few years now and he plays the saxophone very well- well enough…

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Posted in Learning to pray
peter

Day by Day

Posted on January 9, 2011

What New Year’s resolutions have you made this year? Do you remember what your resolutions were for 2010? What happened to them? What difference…

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Posted in Learning to pray
peter

God calls Abram Genesis 12:1-9

Posted on January 9, 2011

Friend of God, first of the Patriarchs, the Father of All true believers. We understand little of Judaism and even less of Christianity if…

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Posted in Abraham
peter

Jesus the Light of the world

Posted on December 19, 2010

The village of Theydon Bois is very unusual. You only notice its outstanding feature when you visit at night as I was doing earlier…

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Posted in Christmas
peter

Man of Sorrows

Posted on December 19, 2010

JOHN 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,…

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Posted in Christmas
peter

Mary’s song of praise – Luke 1:46-56

Posted on December 12, 2010

Mary’s song of praise – the Magnificat. If we were good Anglicans we would say those words together every week as part of our…

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Posted in Christmas
peter

The Messiah the Jews didn’t expect

Posted on December 12, 2010

To me a few words from the Prologue to John’s gospel are amongst the saddest verses of Scripture. John 1:10 He was in the…

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Posted in Christmas
peter

Sowing to please the Spirit

Posted on December 5, 2010

CHARLIE BROWN – You reap what u sow, you get out of life what u put into it – no more, no less! SNOOPY…

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Posted in Galatians
peter

10 ways I can share my faith this Christmas

Posted on November 28, 2010

Christmas is almost here again!!Cards, Presents, Decorations, Parties, even Carol Singing. And so many people missing the point completely! They’ve thrown out the baby!!…

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Posted in Pastoral Sermons
peter

Meditation on “The Fruit of the Spirit” Galatians 5:22-23

Posted on November 28, 2010

There are many promises in the Old Testament about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some of them we like to remember –…

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Posted in Galatians
peter

The overflow of our joyful faith – Matthew 5:1-15

Posted on November 21, 2010

I’m excited, I’m excited, I’m excited in the Lord, I’m excited, I’m excited, I’m excited in the Lord, I’m excited, I’m excited, I’m excited…

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Posted in Holy Spirit
peter

Live by the Spirit – Galatians 5:16-26

Posted on November 21, 2010

The story so far. We are saved by grace through faith, not by keeping God’s law. We are saved by believing God’s promises, and…

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Posted in Galatians
peter

Blessed are the Peacemakers

Posted on November 14, 2010

School dinner was being served. One boy had several minutes to wait as others were receiving their portions and in silence he contemplated the…

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Posted in Evangelistic Sermons
peter

You are all children of God Galatians 3:26-4:7

Posted on November 14, 2010

There are many names for Christians in NT – disciples, believers, followers of Christ. For Paul the most important is this: We are God’s…

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Posted in Galatians
peter

The Spirit is the proof – Galatians 3

Posted on November 7, 2010

How can we release the saving power of God in our lives? And once we have become Christians, how can we know more of…

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Posted in Galatians

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