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Handel’s Messiah

A tingling down the spine, or tears rolling down the cheeks is quite normal for those who hear or participate in Handel’s Messiah. To attend Messiah, which is a musical gospel tract telling the story of [...]

Life after university

Leaving university and going into the real world, or indeed heading back home, can be a daunting and exciting prospect. Three recent graduates share their experiences: New challenges Six years ago I graduated from university, where [...]

Cry freedom

It started with Tunisia, a small Muslim country in North Africa with a population of just over ten million, and spread rapidly to Egypt, the largest and one of the oldest nations in the Arabic-speaking world. [...]

Blessed are the pure in heart

Many of the ordinary, everyday things we do result in a mess, and a large part of our lives is spent in trying to keep things clean, or make them pure. How many of the items [...]

The summer of 2011

Albanian summer It’s 9am and I’m already sweltering. I’m teaching an English lesson to a group of intelligent, eloquent sixteen to twenty-year-olds. Aware of Albania’s deeply corrupt school system (one boy said ‘I don’t work at all, but [...]

His Majesty’s government

Once, while engaged in a pastoral visit with my wife, the subject of Christian books came up. The lady we had come to see asked me what I was reading. ‘It’s called 40 Questions on Elders [...]

Re-focus on Jesus

David Norman Jones (oh, sorry, I think he wants the ‘Norman’ left out now) gave a number of very challenging wake-up calls in his sermons at the Aber Conference in August. He warned against ‘pining for [...]

November/December 2011

In this issue: Re-focus on Jesus; His Majesty’s government; The summer of 2011; Blessed are the pure in heart; Cry freedom; Life after university; Handel’s Messiah; Focus on Italy; The youth of yesterday; Bala Evangelical Church; [...]

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