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Privacy PolicyAll the way my Saviour leads me As I look back over my life I am deeply aware of the hand of God upon me. I was born into a non-Christian home in London. My father developed much of Streatham but when he was killed in October 1940, when our house was bombed, he had…
Keep readingSamuel Rutherford: A pastor who lives through his letters Samuel Rutherford was widely known in his own day as an outspoken opponent of state-sponsored episcopacy, on the one hand, and Independency, on the other. Today he is remembered for his pastoral letters which have been republished no fewer than eighty times in English and at…
Keep readingThe church as an attractive community As part of my training for the ministry I became student pastor of a small Baptist church in Kent. Once a fortnight I would spend a weekend visiting the membership and the immediate neighbourhood of our building. The church’s minute book made me aware of the church’s troubled history….
Keep readingThe blessing of unanswered prayer There is an arresting line in George Croly’s hymn ‘Spirit of God, descend upon my heart’ (New Christian Hymns, 342) in which he prays ‘teach me the patience of unanswered prayer’. There is another hymn, whose author I cannot trace, which thanks God for ‘the blessing of unanswered prayer’. At…
Keep readingThe missing note in Christian piety When I was a young Christian in the nineteen-fifties I quite often heard a fellow believer described as a God-fearing man or woman. It is many years since I heard any one so described. The expression seems to have dropped right out of Christian conversation. Why should this be?…
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