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Posts from January 2018

“Confession is good for the soul” – 28 January 2018

The Wednesday homegroup started a new series this week on John’s three letters.  One of John’s main reasons for writing these letters is to provide a series of tests for distinguishing between genuine Christians and those who falsely claim to know Jesus. In chapter 1 of his first letter, John quotes 3 claims of such false claimants in v6-10.  Within this section…

Church matters – 21 January 2018

Recently Frances forwarded to me a UCB ‘Word for Today’ entitled “Why go to church?”  Whilst some of us may perhaps have little option(!), in reality there are many great reasons for doing so, including the following summarised from the UCB daily thought: the church is the only organisation that still deals with vital issues like salvation, death, judgment, grace, purpose, heaven…

“Climb every mountain” – 14 January 2018

The Bible is full of contrasts – the broad road and the narrow road, the first Adam and the second Adam, eternal death and eternal life, goats and sheep, old and new, to name just a few.  In the Wednesday homegroup we began this week to study the contrast between Mount Sinai and Mount Zion in Hebrews 12. In the children’s talk…

“Oh when the saints …. ” – 7 January 2018

I had the great thrill on Tuesday evening of watching Crystal Palace play Southampton at St. Mary’s stadium, Southampton.  This was my Christmas present from David – we had great seats high up behind one of the goals, but were totally surrounded by thousands of Southampton supporters!  You may be aware that Crystal Palace gloriously came from a goal down to triumph…