Voice of Vision is one of the blogs listed on my blogroll and one I would recommend. The Christmas day message there is very challenging. It’s called Indecent Exposure and looks at the things to which we expose ourselves. In particular the following paragraph is deeply challenging:
A.W. Tozer said, “Every one of us is the [...]
Tags: Discipleship, Sin
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Christian Aid have emailed me this morning to say that their income has been seriously affected by the recession and they do not have enough income to support all their planned projects for 2010. Therefore unless they receive additional funds by 19 February 2010 then they will have to make some tough decisions on who [...]
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Yesterday in our service we were thinking of the apostle John. He and his brother James were known as the “Sons of Thunder” so I guess it’s fair to say that he was quite a fierce character! However if you read the three letters that he wrote towards the end of his life you can [...]
Tags: Transformed
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Olive Jones is a teacher who has been sacked because she offered to pray for a sick pupil. The mother of the sick pupil, who was present when Olive asked to pray, then complained about this and as a result of this she has now been sacked. Her bosses felt that her comments could be [...]
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This morning in Spurgeon’s devotions he focused on the phrase in Joel 2:13 “Rend your heart, and not your garments.” In particular I found his comments below on rending our hearts both challenging and helpful:
HEART-RENDING is divinely wrought and solemnly felt. It is a secret grief which is personally experienced, not in mere form, but [...]
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Many years ago at the church in which I grew up we used to sing a chorus which went “Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice. Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice. Rejoice, Rejoice etc, etc.”
This song was of course based on Philippians 4:4. Normally when we are [...]
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During 2009 I have been working my way through Stuart Briscoe’s “One Year Devotions” for Men. The book is specifically aimed at men and especially those who have a busy life and find difficulty in fitting in regular Bible reading.
There are 365 daily readings – one for every day of the year in the book. Each day [...]
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Have you been to church today? If so you probably heard a sermon. Do you remember what the sermon was about? What do you think God was saying to you through the sermon?
It’s easy to listen to the sermon each Sunday and yet completely forget what it was about come Monday morning or dare I [...]
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It’s very difficult for us nowadays to find stillness. We come home from work and immediately switch on the TV, radio or computer. Are we scared of the quietness?
When I was a teenager I used to do a lot of middle distance running and so I often went out training by myself. These days invariable [...]
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