Archive for 'Tag Archives: 'gospel''
What is gospel preaching?
I realise that many who read this article will not be preachers, but this is nevertheless relevant to all believers. Whether we are preachers or hearers, we need to re-examine what we would expect from the [...]
A strategy for church evangelism
One of the changes in evangelistic approach over recent years is the development of event based, and targeted evangelistic meetings. Undoubtedly, focusing our outreach for particular groups of people can be quite effective. So events aimed [...]
Get a proper job!
‘So what do you do for a living?’ Most people asking this question expect the typical response; teacher, plumber, accountant, or the most common of all, ‘I work in IT’. ‘Street preacher’ often brings an, ‘Oh!’ [...]
God’s necessary gift
A few weeks ago our door-bell rang at two o’clock on a Sunday morning. Naturally, brave as ever, I went to answer it. I peered boldly round the heavy wooden door, holding it firm as protection [...]
Reincarnation or Resurrection?
On a return flight from a recent overseas trip I was sitting to the left of a chatty eleven-year-old who had just entered secondary school. His more self-conscious older brother sat quietly to his right while [...]
Sharing your faith with Muslims
‘I’m scared-scared of the unknown; scared of being ridiculed; scared I won’t know what to say.’ The number one reason why people don’t evangelise Muslims: fear. But humans do some of their best work when they’re [...]
Bloodgate
The rugby union world has been rocked in 2009 by the scandal at Harlequins Rugby Club. The controversy centred around the shedding of blood, or not, as it turned out. In an important Heineken Cup quarter-final [...]
Sacrificial giving for ordinary people
The Oxford dictionary defines the word sacrifice as ‘the act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else more important or worthy’. My own experience I can testify that my parents certainly knew [...]
The great escape: Matthew 2 as the remake of a classic story
You don’t usually need a TV guide to know what films are on over Christmas. Every year, without fail, there are some classic films that return to our screens. It just wouldn’t be Christmas without The [...]
The answer to worry: a study in Luke 12:22-34
There’s a very well-known story of the man who worried that he was dead. No-one could persuade him otherwise, until eventually one wise doctor gave him literature to read that proved that dead men don’t bleed. [...]
Reaching rural Wales
Great to read this. I've been doing a similar thing, going around rura
A little known quarryman in Wales
Thank you for your wonderful article. I happened onto the movie, "Bey
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