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Peace & Division
For He is our peace who made the two one and the middle wall of partition destroyed the enmity in His flesh the law of commandments in dogmas He abolished so that he might make the two in Him into one new man making peace and he reconciled the two in one body by God […]
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A Short Devotion
When Nora invited me to bring “a short devotion” to the meeting tonight I thought I had better know what that means. Actually the word “short” is very inexact and to an analytical mind like mine that could mean anything. For instance, it is a short distance from here to the Moon in comparison to […]
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Life Questions
Someone I love had some good questions recently: Life’s not free, why do Christians say it is free when it is not? You have to work to live. I answered by saying that this life is not free in the sense she meant but that eternal life is free. If she died tomorrow morning or […]
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On being asked to speak
The last time I got asked to speak it turned out that the only reason I was asked was because I had given the recipients enough money to buy food for the congregation. When I asked them if they would have come if there was no food the answer was a simple “no”. Apart from […]
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Transition Well
The step from this world to the next is a transition from a place of limitation to a place of excessive freedom. It is from a place where weariness and pain are part and parcel of people’s lives to a place where such things are unknown. The transition can be sudden or drawn out: In […]
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Tree of Life International Ministry School
As a couple, Olive and I have been coming into a period of grace and overflow. There is a lot to be said for loving others because you have an overflow in your own lives. Loving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength causes the springs of love, peace, joy, patience, goodness, kindness, […]
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Disputable Matters
Olive and I are following Nicky Gumbel’s excellent Bible in One Year reading plan. This morning’s NT reading was Romans 14. When it comes to disputable (but important) matters there is no better guidance than that given in this chapter about how Christians should deal with them. Paul takes two important topics (vegetarianism and holy […]
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At the Mention of Your Name
“The foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of man and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.” 1 Cor. 1: 25. One of the things that encourages me that the Lord is coming back soon is how well the world has been prepared for His coming. The knowledge of God’s ways […]
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The NT teachings on Justification by Faith and their impact on how we view the OT Law
Paul is quite clear when it comes to justification by faith not by works. Pentecostal and Evangelical Christians of all hues (and most Protestant denominations) are usually not divided over this. We are generally agreed that we will never get to Heaven by trying to keep the Old Testament Laws. Christ’s death on the cross […]
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What is a human being?
Nicky Gumbel uses an analogy to describe the limitations of science in one of the excellent Alpha videos. If someone finds a cake then if they are a scientist they could potentially tell you what it was made of, when it was made and how it was made but without knowing the cake maker they […]
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