Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year to everyone. Many thanks for visiting & commenting and some of you actually liked it. May God richly bless you in the New Year. Here’s the text of C H Spurgeon’s Evening devotional for December 31st: “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” –Jeremiah 8:20   [...]

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The Queen’s Christmas Speech 2011

Last evening at church our Pastor mentioned in his sermon the Queen’s speech (Elizabeth II) and how she had very strongly mentioned The Lord Jesus Christ. Wanting to check it out for myself I can confirm The Queen, contrary to many a spineless politician, spoke of Christ as a unique person. And in the context it’s not possible to [...]

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Perspectives on Death

Yesterday I observed two quite different perspectives on death. Both the deaths of elderly people. One I knew, the other I didn’t. How you doin? ‘Oh it’s a bit weird, my Nan died yesterday and it feels a bit strange. I don’t know. It’s all weird. But I guess that’s life’. I didn’t know her [...]

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Comments on Comments

I had a series of comments with Waalid that should you wish can be read HERE. I closed the comment on the post as I felt they were getting nowhere. Waalid decided to respond through another (non-Islamic related) post HERE. I thought he might respond. He hasn’t, and so I’ve no way of knowing if [...]

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Augustine – Quotes from the Confessions

The church book club have just gone through the first 5 books (chapters) of Augustine’s Confessions. We intend to read through to book 9 as a group but I’d like read right through them. I’ve previously dipped very briefly into a few on-line versions but never actually read through them. There’s nothing – in my [...]

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The Gospel Simply Stated

I’m going to assume my ‘audience’ is someone with very little knowledge of the Christian faith and what they do ‘know’ is probably wrong or hopelessly skewed in the wrong direction. Imagine you are in a lift or something or time is short and you only have a few moments to impart the Christian Gospel. [...]

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Bible Study Notes – Union with Christ

Here’s another set of notes. Just a reminder these were used in a discussion. We spent some time discussing when our Union began and even if this aspect of it is actually useful. A really helpful piece of writing on this is found in ‘Redemption: Accomplished and Applied’ by John Murray Part 2 ch 9. [...]

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MacArthur and The Centrality of Christ to the Bible

I have come across, as I’m sure many have, the recent interview (or extracts) of John MacArthur by Tim Challies. I guess that’s fine, BUT, I find it strange, at least, that a man can get what the Bible is about so spectacularly wrong and yet be showered with so many accolades, to me it’s [...]

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