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The joy of salvation
I've been thinking lately about what it means to rejoice in salvation. It seems to me that easy to let my familiarity with the gospel message dull me to the wonder of what God has done through his son…
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Lamb of God
With Easter still very much in my mind the thought of lambs in the fields seems somehow appropriate. While were we up on Penistone Hill on Easter Sunday morning we saw a field full of sheep and as we …
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Star Wars - The Last Jedi
Just some thoughts on the latest Star Wars Film.SPOILER ALERT - STOP READING if you have not seen the film but intend to. I very much wanted to love this film. That is the honest trut…
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Spurgeon on Suffering
"For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ." 2 Corinthians 1:5 There is a blessed proportion. The Ruler of Providence bears a pair of scales-in this si…
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Spurgeon on Christ's love for us
"The love of the Lord." Hosea 3:1 Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how he hath fed and cloth…
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Losing sight of Christ
The power and appropriateness of Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" has been astonishing. Let me share another for encouragement: "I sought him, but I found him not." Song of Solomon 3:1 Tell me where …
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Prayer - Wisdom from Spurgeon
“Beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.” — Matthew 14:30Sinking times are praying times with the Lord’s servants. Peter neglected prayer at starting upon his venturous journey, but when h…
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John Lewis
There is something strangely moving about watching a snowman go to extraordinary lengths to procure a hat and gloves for his beloved snowwife. Of course said blandly like that it sounds unimpressive b…
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Is God Jealous?
While reading through the Ten Commandments again yesterday I was struck at God's description of himself as jealous. Of course we baulk at that because it seems so wrong that God could display somethin…
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Gadgets and Gizmos
This may strike you as somewhat of strange post but I've been thinking about my love of gadgets and what it is that drives it. Since my earliest memories of TV are watching and loving Star Trek I con…
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