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The Church, a refuge for God’s people who are struggling

January 24, 2012

“The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.” Isaiah 14:32 I have found myself thinking a lot about the church in the last day or so. This is no doubt prompted by Tope’s excellent sermon on Sunday. But what strikes me afresh is how easy it is to [...]

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The vital role of attending a church in softening your heart to receive God’s word a sermon by Tope Koleoso

January 23, 2012

Tope Koleoso was on fire yesterday as he preached this message. It will provoke you. It will encourage you to respect God’s word in a new way. It will thrill you again with the vital role that the church plays in opening our hearts to receive the life-giving power of God’s word. Here a few [...]

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Mark Driscoll on British Christians – hear it for yourself (the full interview with Justin Brierley)

January 14, 2012

Over the last few days there has been a fair amount of discussion online about the interview I link to below.  It is a conversation between two people whom I both consider to be my friends. Mark Driscoll, the sometimes controversial pastor of Mars Hill Church, Seattle has done much to advance the cause of [...]

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Tall Skinny Kiwi reports on Practices of a new Jesus movement

January 10, 2012

I read a fascinating article about the Kiwis observations of some emerging Christian movements. Now, those of you that are regular readers will know that I am passionately committed to Sunday Services especially when a group of believers have grown enough to sustain one. Howeve, in light of my “I want it all” committmet you [...]

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Today Jim Elliot Was Killed (1956) and God turned it around for good

January 8, 2012

If God can turn the brutal murder of a group of young missionaries around for good, how much more what you are facing today? Go read the rest o this article which begins, “Today in 1956, five missionaries to the Auca indians in Ecuador were killed. Their deaths brought a sudden end to the project [...]

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When God Tries to Speak to You make sure you are listening

January 8, 2012

I found this great brief article about slowing down to hear Gods voice: You and I live in an often crowded and busy world. There are lots of “voices”. I can’t remember the last time I had a day with nothing to do. My home is quieter than it once was when two boys kept [...]

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How Great is Our God is the top worldwide trend right now — join in and explain why

January 4, 2012

Twitter trending is a funny thing, and all kinds of things suddenly become popular there for a season. Right now, if you visit http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23HowGreatIsOurGod you can read the latest tweets that are helping to tell the world why we believe our God is so great! This was all prompted by 48000 people at Passion 2012 [...]

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Christmas rush

December 23, 2011

At this stage many of us are still panicking about things we need to get down work-wise before the Christmas break, let alone the things around the house. For me, I am so grateful to God for my wife who takes so much pressure away from me at this time of the year! But, in [...]

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Muslims support Cameron’s idea of the UK as a Christian nation

December 20, 2011

The British Prime Minister’s recent obvious statement that Britain is at root a Christian nation has caused the normal uproar among the aggressive secularists. These people are fast trying to turn this nation into an atheocracy where atheism rules with as much brute force intellectually as any religious dictatorship.  Their opposition to Cameron’s words is [...]

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Terry Virgo preaches for Josh Harris at Covenant Life Church on the presence of God

December 19, 2011

Terry Virgo recently preached for a weekend at Covenant Life Church, the church previously lead by C.J. Mahaney. Virgo preached his heart out about the Spirit-Filled church to a strong response. Virgo is no merely aspirational charismatic, and reports are that many received a touch from the Spirit after these sermons.

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Christmas Giveaway

December 16, 2011

Check out the great things you can win with the newsletter! Sign up at the bottom of this post if you haven’t yet signed up for access to exclusive content, free chapters (some months) and the chance to win great resources.  The newsletter will go out later today so it is not too late to [...]

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John Piper on the passing of another year and our glorious future

December 15, 2011

This is a great video of the Piper family, it was created by Carolyn McCulley and is well worth a visit.

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Top 40 Referring Blogs of 2011 – Thanks for sending traffic this way

December 13, 2011

As the year begins to draw to an end, one thing I like to do is share a list of the top non-search engine referrers to this blog. This is of course by way of thank you. I do encourage you, if you own a blog, to frequently link to your favorite bloggers and interact [...]

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How to help people realise they are in a burning building

December 9, 2011

I hope you will enjoy this challenging article as much as I did: “I have learned something in recent years. People come to cherish words like atonement and justification when you expose them to other words like bloodguilt and reckoning. I’ve tried to teach gospel-centric words effectively as stand-alone concepts. It has produced a few [...]

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The changing environment of the Church today – Keith Hazel

December 7, 2011

This is a fireside chat type of video with Keith sharing some of his thoughts about how the church is and needs to be changing today.

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An urgent call to action for all Christian students and twenties in the UK

December 5, 2011

Tom Shaw is a great friend of mine.  He is passionate about reaching a lost generation for Jesus.  Mobilise UK exists to help you get caught up with Christ’s mission for a group who go to church less often than any of those that have gone before for centuries. Watch him here, then book in [...]

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Some initial results from the improved charismatic test

December 3, 2011

I thought I would share some results since I improved the charismatic spectrum test. It definitely isn’t labeling everyone as a charismatic any more. Since the rewrite we have had: 3% strong doctrinal cessationists who all are also experiential cessationists 7% mild doctrinal cessationists who are all experiential cessationists 24% mild doctrinal charismatics, approximately 50% [...]

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Some questions that seem to need rewording in my charismatic spectrum questionnaire

December 2, 2011

Pop over to the charismatic spectrum post first before reading this one. I have looked at the first batch of survey entries, and it seems clear that some of my questions are eliciting more “Yes’s” than they should, especially the beliefs section. So, any thoughts on why and how these selected questions need rewording so [...]

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Some initial responses to my charismatic spectrum post from yesterday

December 2, 2011

Following on from yesterdays post on a charismatic spectrum, I do intend to try and improve the questionnaire, and if necessary tweak some of the categories I used. Some of the comments I received anonymously are really helpful, and so I thought I would share them here, partly to prompt further discussion, I have removed [...]

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How Charismatic are YOU? A Spectrum of belief and practice

December 1, 2011

Today, in the tradition of my previous Arminocalvinist Spectrum, Evolution vs Creationism Spectrum and Spectrum of belief on hell and salvation  I present a “Charismatic-cessationist spectrum.”  For some more background on this issue, and a fairly typical charismatic perspective see my series of posts on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.  As usual this may be a bit of a living [...]

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