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Gospel

God really does want to bless you!

February 2, 2012

I know, some of my readers will have read a headline like that and panicked. Has Warnie slipped into “Health wealth and prosperity” or “Word of Faith” ? Nope, not at all. But I do feel that it is so easy for us to throw out the baby with the bathwater. I remember at one [...]

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How to move the immovable God

January 28, 2012

Christians in the West are often quite good at trusting in God as our rock. We are taught doctrine, told that God is sovereign. We are taught that he stands behind every event that happens and is working for our good (Romans 8:28). Even when other people do things to us from a bad motive, [...]

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The loving wrath of God

May 3, 2011

Love is not some insipid woolly emotion offered to everyone in the same way irrespective of their response. Love is passionate. Infinite love is infinitely passionate. God’s love has content. He truly cares about us, and more than that he truly cares about the honor of his name and the glory of the trinity. God’s [...]

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The Offence of the Cross or Why the day Jesus died is called Good Friday

April 22, 2011

It is astonishing that at the heart of the Christian message of good news lies a death. Of course this good news is only so because of the resurrection, as I argue in my book, but today lets remember the horror of the cross, and how that very shocking nature of the death of our [...]

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The Apostle Paul’s Blogging Checklist, Hell, and Rob Bell

April 12, 2011
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Now that Rob Bell’s controversial book Love Wins is on sale on both sides of the Atlantic and many other comments have been made, I am feeling like I cannot avoid engaging in the controversy, or at least should read some more material to understand it better. I did not seek out such involvement, as [...]

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Is There a Second Chance for Salvation After Death? – Mark Driscoll on hell

April 8, 2011
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In a recent sermon on Heaven and Hell based on the shocking parable of the Rich man and Lazarus found in Luke 16. Driscoll was at his pastoral and passionate best. His love for his hearers, and desire to warn them of important truth is very clearly seen in this talk. I think it is [...]

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The folly of imagining hell is not real and sin is not deadly – Spurgeon

April 7, 2011

“The sinner is a fool, because he is told in God’s word that the path of evil will lead to destruction, and yet he pursues it with the secret hope that in his case the damage will not be very great. He has been warned that sin is like a cup frothing with a foam [...]

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10 Ways a Christian should respond to the earthquake in Japan

March 14, 2011

As Japan braces itself for a possible further serious earthquake, and deals with the consequences of such massive devastation caused by the last one, not to mention the risk of a major nuclear incident, how should Christians respond? Please understand that none of this is intended to claim that we have all the answers to [...]

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How does grace affect the way Pastors lead a church? Terry Virgo

February 15, 2011

Here are some extracts from a further video about how grace has shaped Terry Virgo’s ministry: “What we are looking for in our churches is that there is a whole ethos of grace, and acceptance, that we are delighted in by God. . . It is not to make it casual or lazy. . .We [...]

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How to live in the good of God’s grace – Terry Virgo

February 14, 2011

I hope you have been following along with Terry’s very helpful series of short interviews on the values that have driven his ministry for decades. If not, do visit his site and catch up on them. I have fallen a bit behind, so I will devote this week to us catching up. Here are some [...]

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Valuing Grace by Terry Virgo Part Two

December 16, 2010

This is the second of Terry’s videos on his value of grace. You know how it goes by now, here is an extract to make you want to watch the whole thing: “I recall that it was as though I saw a break in the cloud, and saw some blue sky. I suddenly felt that [...]

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Saved through union with our risen savior

December 8, 2010

Someone recently shared a quote online from my book Raised With Christ. I thought I’d share it with you as a not-too-subtle reminder to consider buying someone a book about Easter this Christmas! Salvation is not merely a case of believing in something that happened thousands of years ago.  We are not saved by a [...]

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Making Jesus the central thing

December 7, 2010

I love this quote from Piper’s excellent book “What Jesus demands from the World” It really captures in a nutshell what being born again is all about: When a person is born anew and experiences repentance, his attitude about Jesus changes. Jesus himself becomes the central focus and supreme value of life. Before the new [...]

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A Glimpse of Eternity – Ian McCormack “The Jellyfish Man”

December 1, 2010

Last Sunday, Jubilee Church London had the real blessing of Ian McCormack visiting us to share his testimony. It truly is a remarkable story of being declared dead, an encounter with Jesus, a dramatic resurrection, and a transformed life. A while ago I had lunch with this man, and a kinder, gentler man I have [...]

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The vital roles of Union AND Fellowship with Jesus

November 30, 2010

This quote from Terry Virgo is just too good not to share.  Many people fail to appreciate the two very distinct yet crucial sources of comfort to the Christian.  They miss the power that is available to us. They miss the transformation God intends us to experience: Unbelievers are under the impression that Christians are [...]

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Faith and Feelings Part Ten – Conversion is typically an emotional experience

September 30, 2010

Spurgeon argued yesterday that often feelings come before faith, (having previously denied it!).  In today’s quote after carefully reminding us that not every conversion is a “typical” one he goes on to tell us how he feels the typical conversion occurs: Some men have the light of God; but they cannot tell when the light [...]

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Faith and Feelings Part Nine – Spurgeon suggests experience comes before knowledge after all

September 29, 2010

Today’s quote from Spurgeon demonstrates that the man believed two points that many today would disagree with.  Firstly, he argues that intellectual assent to the gospel is insufficient for salvation, indeed that it may make you more worthy of damnation. Secondly, he seems to suggest that experience may well need to come first before faith. [...]

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Grace is not earned or deserved – a song by Kate Simmonds

September 22, 2010

One of the many highlights of the Brighton conference for me was that Kate Simmonds was once again with us leading worship, having traveled all the way from Sydney, Australia. She shared with us a song that displays the glorious gospel in a wonderfully fresh way. In these two videos she first speaks about the [...]

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Don’t trust the sweetest frame

September 13, 2010

I want to remind you today of an old hymn and to highlight just one line from one of the verses.  Have a think about what this line means to us today, and starting tomorrow I will begin a series in which I will first share some quotes from others, then write myself about why [...]

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SERMON: What has sustained John Piper for thirty years?

August 3, 2010

These notes are from the morning session of the 300 conference we recently had with John Piper. I have set them to auto-publish today, as I have been reliably informed that by now the video and audio of both this talk and the excellent Q and A should be available from 300leaders.org pop over and [...]

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