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Sermon: Psalm 131, A Question Of Balance 25 Aug 2013 | 02:28 am
Psalm 131 As a small child, I had a tricycle. But when the time came to graduate to a bike, I never had one. The owner of the local cycle shop wouldn’t sell bikes with stabilisers. He said stabiliser...
Sermon: Suffering And Faith 27 Jul 2013 | 03:28 am
Psalm 130 The pastor of a Christian Science church was talking to a member of his congregation. ‘And how is your husband today?’ ‘I’m afraid he’s very ill.’ ‘No, no,’ corrected the pastor, you real...
Sermon: A Servant Psalm 21 Jul 2013 | 02:06 am
books (Photo credit: brody4) Psalm 123 I have several friends who are authors. Some are journalists, others are playwrights, some are ghost writers for famous people who cannot write sufficiently we...
Tony Anthony, Born Again Testimonies, And Poor Evangelical Theologies Of Conversion 19 Jul 2013 | 12:15 am
Back in the days when the now-famous Ship Of Fools website was a print magazine thirty-odd years ago (aagh!), it printed in Issue 3 (June 1979) this cartoon strip. I reproduce it below with permission...
Sermon: Where Does My Help Come From? 12 Jul 2013 | 09:16 pm
Travel (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Psalm 121 When I was a child, one of the great parts of preparing for our family summer holiday was Dad’s planning of the journey. He would pore over maps, come up w...
Sermon: Simple Mission 7 Jul 2013 | 12:52 am
Isaac Watts (Photo credit: treehouse1977) Luke 10:1-20 I am sure you will recall the hymn, Come, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongu...
Sermon: The Worshipping Community 30 Jun 2013 | 03:11 am
Colossians 3:12-17 “What does your church offer that’s missing at the YMCA? … When you read your church’s bulletin and determine the invitation you offer, you will know whether your church is a commu...
Sermon: A Missional Confrontation With Evil 23 Jun 2013 | 02:35 am
Luke 8:26-39 Israel, Sea of Galilee (Lake of Tiberias) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was tempted to start this week’s sermon the way I began my sermon last Sunday. I figured you wouldn’t notice, as I ...
Father’s Day 16 Jun 2013 | 01:00 pm
Call me an unreconstructed softie, but this post by Chance Scoggins could cause the fall of precipitation on the faces of even the most hardened of Dads. (HT: Vicky Beeching.) Well, OK, not everyone; ...
Sermon: Worship and the Gifts of the Spirit 16 Jun 2013 | 01:38 am
Continuing our sermon series on worship: 1 Corinthians 14:26-33 Nancy Duarte is something of a hero to me. She married her husband Mark at eighteen, and they planned to go Bible college and then find ...
