30th July 2023 Dear Brothers and Sisters, … people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment. Hebrews 9:27 (NIV) Talking about Death There are many fine moments in the new Barbie film. Perhaps the most striking is when Barbie is chattering away and asks her friends (also called Barbie), “Have you
Read more23rd July 2023 Dear Brothers and Sisters, Become a Psalmist In a recent blog from CCEF, Ed Welch describes listening to a friend speaking of the pain he is experiencing, the fears he faces and the regrets he has, and yet somehow he always returns to speaking of God’s faithfulness. He comments that ,”I was
Read moreSunday 16th July 2023 How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others…? Song of Songs 5:9 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, At this point in the Song of Songs, the woman fears she has lost the intimacy she had with her beloved and she goes
Read more25th June 2023 Dear Brothers and Sisters, Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. (Psalm 139:7-8, NIV) The ocean depths There has been something ghoulish and macabre
Read moreSunday 18th June 2023 Dear Brothers and Sisters, I will raise up for them a prophet … and I will put my words in his mouth (Deuteronomy 18:18). We have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God (Hebrews 4:4). On his robe and on his thigh he has
Read moreSunday 11th June 2023 Dear Brothers and Sisters, The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 (NIV) How people change “Only God’s love for sinners inspires sinners to love God more than sin.” I was catching
Read moreSunday 4th June 2023 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Mark 6:34 (NIV) Feeling Well? At the recent Midlands Men’s Convention, a number of us attended a seminar with the title, “How to be men with a fully-functioning emotional life.”
Read moreSunday 28th May 2023 “Do you not realise that a commander and a great man has fallen in Israel this day?” 2 Samuel 3:38 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Tim Keller On Friday 19th May, Tim Keller passed away and went to be with the Lord, aged 72, after a struggle with pancreatic cancer. Having
Read more21st May 2023 Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation. Galatians 5:15 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, UK ‘one of the least religious countries’ There was another report on the radio this week of a survey showing that the UK is now one of the least religious countries in the
Read moreSunday 14th May 2023 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. Mark 10:45 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Servant King There were many telling moments in the coronation service last weekend – perhaps none more telling
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