Last night during our Ash Wednesday service our vicar spoke about how Lent was a time for both fasting and feasting. It would come as no surprise to most people that fasting should be associated with Lent as Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert. Normally when people think of fasting they associate it [...]
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Walk on: The Spiritual Journey of U2 by Steve Stockman With the new U2 album “No Line On the Horizon” being released in the UK on March 2nd it seemed appropriate to publish a review of Steve Stockman’s book analysing the spiritual journey of U2. Arguably the biggest band in the world, U2 have been [...]
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The issue of Predestination and Free Will has been an area of disagreement among Christians for hundreds of years. Those who believe in Predestination will show you verses that support that doctrine, whilst those who believe in Free Will likewise will show you Scripture that support that position. I recently read a biography of John [...]
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Simply Christian by Tom Wright Thanks to Ian from the Parish of Wonersh for permitting the use of the review he wrote on “Simply Christian.” I think this is Simply the best book I read in 2008. A modern thinker (theologian, New Testament scholar, evangelical, Bishop of Durham) sets out to write a modern version [...]
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John Piper on his Desiring God website this week addressed one of the questions he has been asked the most as a Pastor: “How I do know if my repentance is genuine?” This is a very important question and a very good response too! Josh Harris gives a definition of repentance from one of J [...]
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Challenging Lifestyle by Nicky Gumbel This book is written by Nicky Gumbel, the man who pioneered the Alpha course. Challenging Lifestyle is described on its front cover as an official follow up to the popular Alpha Course. It’s based on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5 to 7) and is split into 19 [...]
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Common sense has prevailed and in an answer to prayer Caroline Petrie has been allowed back to work! Caroline Petrie returns to work
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Caroline Petrie is a community nurse from Weston-Super-Mare who has been suspended from work because she offered to pray for a elderly patient whilst undertaking a home visit. As a result of this she has been suspended without pay since the middle of December 2008. They say that nursing is a vocational role and it [...]
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Thank God it’s Monday (Ministry in the Workplace) by Mark Greene This is a well written and easy to read book for anyone struggling with what it means to be a Christian in today’s workplace. Greene believes that it is God’s will for Christians to work, although he makes no distinction between those in paid [...]
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