Pentateuch

Guest post by Jon Cressey: Methuselah – a long life wasted?

August 23, 2011

Have you ever sat down and worked your way through the years of the first few generations of mankind (Genesis 5)? It’s a few minutes work, but it is worth it. There are a few surprises that grab your attention straight away. And one of them is a particularly sobering one – Methuselah. Biography Methuselah [...]

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Straight to the heart of Moses – Second free chapter

July 26, 2011

Today I can share with you by kind permission of Monarch the second chapter of my friend Phil Moore’s new book Straight to the heart of Moses.. The third will be made available to those who subscribe to my email newsletter.   GOD’S PRISON BREAK (1:1-2:10) “But the more they were oppressed, the more they [...]

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Straight to the heart of Moses (Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy)

July 25, 2011

Today I can share with you by kind permission of Monarch the first chapter of my friend Phil Moore’s new book Straight to the heart of Moses.. Tomorrow I will share another, and the third will be made available to those who subscribe to my email newsletter. INTRODUCTION: GOD WANTS TO BE SEEN THROUGH HIS [...]

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“Abraham, the deal is still on!” Sermon by Jack Hayford

March 21, 2011

We had Jack Hayford with us at the weekend, and I will be sharing various video here over the next little while. First up is the sermon he preached for Jubilee Church on Sunday. It is based on Genesis 15 and is designed to instil hope in you that God is not finished with you [...]

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Hear Behe, an advocate of Intelligent Design in the UK

November 15, 2010

This month you can attend a number of meetings that Behe will be speaking at.  I may well be at next Monday Evenings one in Westminster chapel. There are a number of other events you can read about on their site: Darwin or design? Michael Behe, a biochemistry professor, is a key figure in the emergence [...]

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BOOK EXTRACT – Reflecting God’s Glory to a watching world

October 30, 2010

This is another extract from Phil Moore’s new book on Genesis: CAT’S EYES (1:26-31) “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27) Percy Shaw knew the Bradford-to-Halifax road, but he needed some help one night in 1933. The Yorkshire [...]

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BOOK EXTRACT – Straight to the heart of Genesis

October 29, 2010

Yesterday I shared an extract from Phil Moore’s introduction to Genesis. Today we continue to hear from him on this vital book of the Bible: CREATOR GOD (1:1-31) “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God [...]

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BOOK EXTRACT – Straight to the heart of – New books available from Phil Moore

October 28, 2010

It is a real joy for me to lend my blog over the next few days once again to extracts from my friend Phil Moore’s new series of books that aim to get “Straight to the Heart” of the Bible’s message (available on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com). I have previously shared extracts from his other volumes [...]

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Guest Post: The Grand Design? Part Two

October 10, 2010

Professor Edgar Andrews continues his review of The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and LeonardProfessor Edgar Andrews reviews The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and LeonardMlodinow (Bantam Books, September 2010): Mighty M-theory Chapter 5 surveys the development of physics during the past 200 years, including general relativity (which describes the large-scale behaviour of the universe) [...]

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Guest Post: The Grand Design? Part One

October 9, 2010

Professor Edgar Andrews reviews The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam Books, September 2010). Cosmologist Stephen Hawking sold over nine million copies of his book A Brief History of Time. Now, 22 years later, he has co-authored The Grand Design which immediately hit the No.1 spot in the New York Times best-seller [...]

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When it is Great to be Wrong!

March 1, 2010

I received another email (see the first), which I have permission to share anonymously. It shows that I was not entirely right. I still believe, however, that for most people leading our evangelism with creationism is not the best way. I think that stories like this tell us that we must treat every inquirer as [...]

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Is it Really Possible to Believe in a Form of Evolution and Still be a Christian?

February 27, 2010

I received the following email, and with the writer’s consent, thought it would be good to publish it here. Remember that the discussion I intended is not about what I personally believe on this issue, nor about what it is best for a Bible-loving believer to believe. Rather, it’s about whether arguing about evolution is [...]

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Lessons From A Brief History of Wisdom

September 8, 2009

I have been doing some thinking about wisdom before I began this blog break. I want to share some notes with you over the next few days that I made that basically do a whistlestop tour of what the Bible has to say on this subject. 1. Wisdom in the Bible Seems to Get off [...]

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Moses and God

April 30, 2009

“I want you to do this, the future hangs on it.” “But I don’t know if I can.” “Right now, I am only asking you to speak to Pharaoh and tell him what I tell you.” “But I don’t know what scares me most—him ignoring me, or what happens if he does let your people [...]

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Whats Your Capacity? Whats Your Role?

February 27, 2009

One of the tragedies of the modern church is that we just don’t seem to understand a lesson the Moses learnt from his father-in-law. Sadly we fail to realise that not every godly Christian leader should aspire to be the so-called “number one” leader of a church. Many churches are started and do not grow [...]

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Jonathan Edwards on Perseverance of the Saints

February 18, 2009
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Jonathan Edwards teaches the doctrine of perseverance in this passage, which is about as far removed from the easy believism most understand when they say “once saved always saved” as you can get. ” . . .as soon as ever a soul has put forth one act of faith towards Jesus, it becomes interested in [...]

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SERMON – Back to the Word: Nehemiah 8

November 12, 2008

Last Sunday, I preached a sermon at Jubilee Church in our series on the book of Nehemiah. A video of it is now available to download. You can also download the mp3, listen to it right here, or read my notes below: “Let me tell you about a most wonderful experience I had early Monday [...]

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SERMON – Building for the Glory of God: Nehemiah 3

October 16, 2008

Last Sunday I preached on Nehemiah 3. You can download the sermon, listen to it right here, download the video via the vodcast or by rightclicking on this download link. or read the edited trancript below. You can Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep [...]

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Death By Love – Pastoral Application of the Atonement by Driscoll and Breshears

October 11, 2008

I want to introduce you to a very unusual book by Mark Driscoll and his writing buddy and professor, Gerry Breshears. I would go so far as to say that this is a unique book in that I have never seen anything quite like it. If their first book together, Vintage Jesus, was a light [...]

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Dare to Ask God for Success

September 3, 2008

Yesterday, at two different times during the day, I was confronted with the idea of God granting success to people. The first time occurred while I was reading the story of David and Jonathan where, in one chapter, the idea is repeated several times. 1 Samuel 18:5 — And David went out and was successful [...]

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