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Jan/Feb 2012

1 Mar, 2012

Titanic: A night to remember

by Roger Carswell

A night to remember The largest passenger steamer of her day, SS Titanic was launched from Belfast’s Harland and Wolff famous shipyard in 1911. She was sumptuous and luxurious, having cost £1.5million to build and weighing 46,329 tons. Thousands of people lined Belfast Lough to watch her sail majestically on her maiden journey. The Titanic’s…

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1 Jan, 2012

The centrality of scripture

by John Woolley

The centrality of scripture ‘What pastures are to the beast, the nest for the birds, the stream for fish, the scriptures are for believing souls.’ So wrote Luther in his own inimitable way. Christianity is a religion of The Book. The God who has revealed Himself to sinful humanity has preserved His revelation in a…

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1 Jan, 2012

A radical idea?

by Gary Benfold

A radical idea? It’s a radical idea, isn’t it – getting Christians to read the Bible? Perhaps you’ve seen the statistics of how few Christians read the Bible at all between one Sunday and the next. Yet people grow as they read the word and sermons make more sense (which is bound to be a…

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1 Jan, 2012

The art of balancing: Issues facing young women today

by Kathryn Kendall

The art of balancing: Issues facing young women today I undertook a small scale survey among some of my female friends in their twenties and early thirties to find out what they felt were the top three key issues facing young Christian women today. Important issues such as singleness, finding satisfying work, sexual temptation, and…

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1 Jan, 2012

Surviving in a mad, bad world

by Ian Hamilton

Surviving in a mad, bad world We live in a mad, as well as a bad, world. The pace of life is simply frenetic, and shows few if any signs of slowing down. One danger facing the Christian in this mad, bad world is that we become swept along in the rush and never really…

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1 Jan, 2012

Internet Preaching

Listening Over the last few weeks I’ve listened to some great sermons: Alistair Begg on finding Christ in the book of Ruth; Tim Keller on the crossing of the Red Sea; James MacDonald on learning from and leaning on Christ; Conrad Mbewe on the coming Christ; Matt Chandler on remembering our Creator. With such an…

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1 Jan, 2012

Finally alive

by Esther van der Spoel

Finally alive My parents were Christians and I went to church with them when I was a child. I always said that I believed in God, but didn’t question too deeply about what that meant to me. At seventeen I started making excuses not to go to church. My parents tried to encourage me, but…

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1 Jan, 2012

Family worship

by Tim Curnow

Family worship ‘Religion was established first in families, and there the devil seeks to crush it… The family is the training ground of Church and State; and if children are not well instructed there, both will fail. Families are societies that must be set apart for God just as Churches; and parents have just as…

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1 Jan, 2012

Reaching rural Wales

by Wyn and Angela Evans

Reaching rural Wales As you travel through Wales, especially its beautiful countryside, you will notice, dotted on the hills round about, isolated farms, so remote, not only from each other, but from the rest of the community. The thought occurred to us that not only are these farms isolated geographically, but more importantly, spiritually too….

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