Losing one life may be regarded as a misfortune but losing four looks like carelessness, and Jesus was anything save careless. We seem to be making quick work of this Bible in a year project. With Matthew and Mark polished off we’re taking on Luke beginning today. And since we are going to have a […]
Four stories and one death Read More »
One of the most damning things ever said about anyone in the Bible in my view was recorded in the gospels about the inhabitants of Jesus’s hometown of Nazareth. He had been unable to do many miracles there, He only laid hands on a few sick people and healed them, and it says that Jesus
amazing God with faith Read More »
One book done already; having completed the gospel of Matthew, today we begin the gospel of Mark. The author is John Mark the evangelist, a man with quite a distinguished pedigree. His mother Mary was a believer in whose home prayer was held, he was the nephew of Barnabbas, Paul’s companion in mission, He travelled
Matthew done, Mark to go Read More »
One of the greatest proofs of the necessity of Christ’s death on the cross for man’s reconciliation with God is in the prayer that He prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. Jesus, in the deep anguish of His soul cried out to the Father and said if it were possible, the cup of suffering be
The Cross – gratuitous, an exercise in masochism? Read More »
“The church externally looks as though it required some one to take pity upon it; it stands much in need of a frequent replenishment of the box for repairs, which is placed at the gate, with a reminder that the spire points to heaven, and that it would be well to keep in order the
Heligoland Travelogue (extract)- Vintage Spurgeon Read More »
It’s D day. We started our Bible in one year project today as a church body. Today’s passage was the first four chapters of Matthew. I was so pleased that on the way to my meeting i got out my Ipod and listened again to the passage while following the text in French on my
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