When we were children we had malaria shots every year, as, like clockwork we fell prey to the dire doings of the anopheles mosquito year after year. We knew the symptoms, once the feverishness started and that strange feeling of wanting to lie in the sun all day, joints aching, we knew what was in […]
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Recently I was studying Ephesians and went wild with joy. I can imagine in what state must have been the apostle when he wrote these glorious words. That he would write this to encourage them is astounding enough, that he would write it because it truly is so, is breathtakingly magnificent. No wonder he felt
One day a young man had a dream, and then another dream, and they got him into trouble. People hated him for them and did him great evil. But later the very people who gave him hell were saved because of his persistence to follow his dreams, the very dreams for which they hated him.
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N.T Wright in his commentary on the book of Ephesians likens it to the London Eye, the massive wheel-like attraction that gives you an unequalled view of Central London and its monuments, from the Big Ben to the Houses of Parliament, the palaces, cathedrals, parks and gardens, the very best there is. Likewise the book
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Last week I had a conversation with a family member about films, the need to produce Christian films that communicate biblical perspectives on truth and life. I explained that I was not interested in subtlety, not in the least, I wanted to present an alternative worldview but do it brilliantly, so brilliantly that even non
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When we did our sermon series on the church, one of the areas we focused on was the mandate of the church to reconcile men to God, in other words evangelism. It is in the very nature of the church as conceived by Christ Jesus Himself. He instructed us to go and make disciples. The
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