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Heaven
Sometimes classical music describes heaven better than words. Faure’s Pavane, Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concerto, Mozart’s clarinet concerto, the list goes on and on. There is something in the eternal depth of the relationships that we will experience, the striking and fantastic adventures, the discovery of new worlds and aspects of creation – all these and […]
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Format the same, experience different
I believe it is a sign that the church is being led by the Holy Spirit that I can be in worship one Sunday and be in a march across the county and the next Sunday in a love-in holding hands with angels (ok my imagination, indulge me) and knowing intimacy with the Holy Spirit as […]
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Visions during Worship
Corporate worship where God is moving in the Spirit is amazing. I am sure all sorts of things are happening while we worship that we are probably only dimly aware of. For sure there is more going on than most of us realise. This morning during worship I had a series of visions – or […]
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Books and the Bible: The Shack
I’ve spent the last many years not reading books except the Bible and those connected to work with few exceptions (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons being one notable one). However this year instead of my normal reading of the bible in a year (like for the […]
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Forgiveness
From chapters 9 – 11 of Romans, Paul wrestles with the mysteries of pre-destination. Finally at the end he seems almost to throw his hands up in the air and admit he can’t explain it. This reaction seems triggered by the remarkable conclusion he comes to in Romans 11:32: “For God has committed them all […]
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The Irish fields are ripe for harvest
God has been doing a mighty work in Ireland shaking everything that can be shaken so that that which cannot be shaken – the Kingdom of God – may remain and, indeed, expand greatly. The powers of institutional religion and the intertwined government that ruled this country for decades have been broken and a spiritual vacumn […]
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If you see it you will remember it…
When it comes to visual aids God is no slouch. Knowing us like He does means that He also knows how to get a message across in a 3D visualisation. One of the best of these is the Tabernacle. But what was the Tabernacle? There are a few ways it could be described but my […]
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The sower sows the word
Luke 8:11 explains that when the Scripture talks about seed it is referring to the word of God. Its one of those key verses like Rev. 1:20 which explains an object picture that God uses to describe something spiritual. The parable of the sower in Matthew 13, Mark 4 and Luke 8 is an important […]
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