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To love someone at all times is not easy. To learn to love is a life’s work. It requires everything of us. Love challenges us every day. Sometimes when I walk on the beach I come across a heart scratched in the sand, with the names of two people entwined in it. The...
JOHN STOTT’S VISION OF THE CHURCH
On the 150th anniversary of the dedication of All Souls Church in 1974, John Stott concluded a sermon (with apologies to Martin Luther King, Jr.) with his dream for the future of the church. I have a dream of a church that is a biblical church – which is loyal in...
OUR MODERN CULTURE
There are few books that I agree with 100 percent but this is one. THE DESECRATION OF MAN: HOW THE REJECTION OF GOD DEGRADES OUR HUMANITY by Carl R. Trueman, is a unflinching exposé of our secular society from the perspective of the biblical faith. It confronts the...
MEMORIAL DAY
I will never forget my first Memorial Day weekend in the USA. That Sunday morning in 1971 after I led the prayers at Christ Church, in Hamilton-Wenham, Massachusetts, I was greeting the worshipers at the door when a lady said to me, “You didn’t mention Memorial Day in...
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
On the Feast of Pentecost (fifty days after the Passover), seven weeks after the resurrection of Jesus, the disciples were gathered in Jerusalem. They had been told by Jesus not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the gift his Father had promised, which they had heard...
OUR HEAVENLY DESTINATION
The Ascension of Jesus is celebrated on the 40th day after Easter Sunday (Acts 1:4). Because it is always a Thursday it tends to be overlooked and neglected. Yet the Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of his earthly life. It confirms his identity, and speaks to us...
PERSONAL HISTORY
Recently I came across this quotation from Soren Kierkegaard: “Man’s eternal dignity consists in the fact that he can have a history, the divine element in him consists in the fact that he himself, if he will, can impart to this history continuity, for this it...
THE JESUS PATTERN FOR MINISTRY
“Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.” (Matthew 4:23) As I reflect upon the ministry of Jesus, my own ministry and the ministry of the church and...
WHY SHOULD ANYONE WANT TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN?
“Why should anyone want to become a Christian? The reason will not be primarily intellectual. The most basic decisions we humans make about the direction of our lives are always rooted in what we care most deeply about. To become a Christian a person must care about...
MAKING DEATH HARMLESS
Through Jesus Christ the Christian receives the certainty of eternal life. Jesus Christ is the Savior from death, and faith in Him is already the beginning, the dawn of Eternal Life. Even Christians must die. But through Christ this death has lost its sting, for...
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