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Praying for a right walk
It's been a while since I've quoted anything from "The Valley of Vision" so I though some of you might find this prayer helpful. As always there is a very honest confession before God of our failures …
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Am I random
The answer to the question "Am I random?" may well be yes. That is, some of you who know me well may consider me to be a bit scatterbrained and forgetful. But of course, that's not really what I'm ask…
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Not Going to Church
"I've decided to have a week off church because you don't need to go to church to be a Christian so there is no obligation for me to go" Ever heard anything like that? There are other variations on it…
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Song of Solomon
The Song of Solomon is one of the books of the Bible that lots of people really don't know what to do with. At first glance it is a love poem between Solomon and one of his brides, and as such it's in…
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Wayne Grudem
I may well be late to this particular phenomenon but this is a video song about a Systematic Theologian called Wayne Grudem. For those of us who have read his stuff his particular blend of extraordina…
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Expectation
A couple of things this week got me thinking about how appropriate expectation is for people who profess to believe in an all powerful God. The first was last Sunday, we looked at Psalm 5, a great son…
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Fringe
Reading through Job last night I had one of those moments where you come across a verse that you must have read before but it's never hit you in previous readings: Job 26v14 "And these are but the ou…
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Real Christianity
Each week I get an email from the Kairos Journal which has various articles on contemporary issues and articles drawn from older works. I was struck by one of the pieces this week because it touched o…
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Praise God for Richard Dawkins
Writing today in "The Times" Richard Dawkins is on a mission to demonstrate again how stupid Christians are and how superior his own brand of religion (athiesm) is to all the rest. I have to say much …
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Blogging with trumpets
It is not difficult to understand what Jesus is getting at in Matthew chapter 6. Three times he condemns religious acts that are done merely for show. He says God hates it when we pray so that other p…
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