Grand unveiling….

My wife has now transitioned from Blog Widow to Blog Wonder.  Emma’s website is called A New Name and I’m letting you all in on the ground floor! There’ll be lots of discussion about the gospel and food, the body, gender, identity, that kind of thing.  When you read her story you’ll know why. Through [...]

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Happy Friday

Here’s the book they’re from.  Here’s where I found them. More below

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You will [repost]

The Ten Commandments are written in the indicative.  Did you know that?  There’s a perfectly straightforward imperative mood in Hebrew.  God could easily have  said “You must not murder”.  But God didn’t say that.  He said “You will not murder.”  You won’t.  You’re my special people.  I’ve saved you.  You won’t lie, you won’t murder, you [...]

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Once more with feeling (Colossians 1:1-14)

Boring alert – preacher talking boring preacher stuff, justifying self, boring, boring… I preached Colossians 1:1-14 on Sunday night from some pretty full notes.  It was the first time I’d preached from notes and it was terrible.  I usually have full script or no script.  I think I thought I’d be more free with less [...]

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Colossians 1:1-14 sermon – How to be fruitful…

Sermon audio (preached at a midweek communion service) Do you want to be fruitful?  Do you want what comes out of you to be life and blessing?  Are you sick of poison and darkness coming out?  Paul tells us here how to bear fruit as believers and as churches. Right from Genesis 1 we learn [...]

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The Fairest of Ten Thousand – Spurgeon

He is the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace… Get up from your beds of sloth; rise from your chambers of ease; go forth, go forth to pray, to labor, to suffer; go forth to live in purity, leaving Babylon behind; go forth to walk with him alone, [...]

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Blogging emergency, help needed

Have I ever mentioned how ramshackle the whole christthetruth enterprise is?  I’m sure you’ve noticed it’s basicallly held together with bluetac and prayer.  I edit my website in miscrosoft word, I produce my videos in powerpoint and tape my songs on a little dictation recorder.  And, yes, I know that it shows. So anyway, my [...]

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Giving in Exodus

This week has been a frightening week for the nation financially – unless you’re Wayne Rooney.  Or his agent.  But for the rest of us it seems like tightening the belt is the order of the day.  So you might have thought that this Sunday was a bad week to have chosen for our church [...]

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Mike Reeves on the Love of God

Three talks given yesterday.  Outstanding The Loving Father The Beautiful Son The Heart-Melting Spirit Thanks Dave for posting and putting it all on! .

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Happy Friday

Chuck Norris Facts: Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing. The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain. Chuck Norris drinks napalm to quell his heartburn. Aliens do exist, they’re just waiting for Chuck Norris to die before they attack. Chuck Norris can speak [...]

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“This new God”

As always I’m very encouraged by hearing about the work of Gospel for Asia.  In their newsletter today I read something I’d love to see happening in the West. Here are some testimonies of people converted to Christ: …The family members repeatedly and earnestly said prayers to their local gods and goddesses… “Why are the [...]

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Sinning really isn’t the worst thing [repost]

Oh it’s bad.  It’s very bad.  It’s murdering your Maker.  It’s cheating on your Lover.  It’s grieving His Spirit.  It’s tearing apart your soul.  It’s bad.  Bad, bad, bad. But not receiving forgiveness is far worse.  Failure to accept the grace of Jesus dwarfs all other sins in its monstrosity.  To refuse the vulnerable humility [...]

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Being renewed after the Image of our Creator

Four simple questions and four (perhaps) surprising answers regarding Colossians 3:10: Put on the new self (the new man), which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 1) Who is the Creator referred to? In context you’d think it was Christ, who is the Creator Image of God (Col 1:15-17) 2) [...]

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“God is not a glory-monger, He’s a glory-sharer”

Ron Frost on the dangers of glorifying glory In many Christian circles we hear lots about the theme of glory as God’s ultimate goal for the creation.  But by giving such prominence to glory, glory may be getting more glory than God… The whole thing is… well… glorious.  Read now!

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Could God shine without Jesus?

I was in a little bible study on Hebrews 1 recently.  We were looking at v3: The Son is the radiance of God’s glory Someone asked the excellent question: “Does this mean that God couldn’t shine without Jesus?” What would you reply? Perhaps our knee-jerk response is to say “No of course God could shine [...]

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Orthodox Israelite Belief – Two Persons called Yahweh

From Professor Mike Heiser, Academic Editor of Logos Bible Software and author of website, The Two Powers: For the orthodox Israelite, Yahweh was both sovereign and vice regent occupying both ‘slots’ as it were at the head of the divine council. The binitarian portrayal of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible was motivated by this belief. [...]

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Exodus 13-16 sermon

Not just sheltered… brought out… through trials… for deeper dependence. Grumbling goes hand in hand with comparisons doesn’t it?  Grumbling is bound up with looking to our non-Christian past or our non-Christian friends with rose tinted glasses.  We say (Ex 16:3) “Egypt was great, remember the barbecues?  Aw the barbecues were fantastic.  Man those Egyptians [...]

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Four sensational sermons

Here’s Leon Sim on Male and Female He created them Continuing the Genesis 2 theme, here’s David White from St Andrews, Chorleywood A wonderful address on 1 Peter 2 to the Peninsula Gospel Partnership by John Gillespie And here’s Andrew Wood on James 2:14-26. All sermons come with a hearty five thumbs up. Enjoy!

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