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We are family
In Matthew 12 Jesus makes a remarkable statement about those who would soon be called His church. When His mother and brothers come to see Him, Jesus looks at His disciples and says: ‘Here are my [...]
On my way to heaven
When the surgeon first broke the news to Mark Ashton that he had inoperable gallbladder cancer, Mark’s response was that, as a Christian believer, this was not bad news but good; it was not the end [...]
Confidence in prayer
Prayer is our greatest privilege as Christians and yet it’s also one of our chief struggles. There are no doubt many reasons for this, but the one I want to concentrate on here is that we [...]
Making the most of Christmas
By the time you read this you may already have had your first (or tenth) mince pie of the season, you may be psyching yourself up to tackle the ever growing Christmas card list, and you [...]
From the Resurrection to His Return: Living Faithfully in the Last Days
Of all Don Carson’s books this is surely the shortest: forty-seven small pages. It took me all of twenty minutes to read. But it ranks well on the ‘helpfulness-per-minute-of-reading scale’! Based on 2 Timothy 3-4, it’s [...]
Counterfeit Gods
We don’t tend to think of ourselves as idolaters, we associate idols with shrines and statues, but in Ezekiel 14 God’s complaint against the elders in Israel is that they had ‘set up idols in their [...]
Life’s Big Questions
This is a companion volume to God’s Big Picture by the same author. In both books Vaughan Roberts shows how the unity of the Bible – its one story of God’s redemption plan through Jesus Christ [...]
God’s Big Design: Life as He intends it to be
Why do you work? To pay the bills? To fund gospel work? Does work have any inherent value? Or is it just a necessary evil? Those are important questions, especially for those who spend forty hours [...]
A little known quarryman in Wales
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So you have no children?
Thank you so much for writing this article. It is very comforting. It'
The great harvest
I live and worship in Yeadon, in a church born out of the revival. It
Feminine Threads
I was interested in the above review of Diana Severance's book. Althou
Being counted for Christ
I would pray that god give me courage to do more thanks for this artic