Letter from the Manse (145)
Thought provoking, biblical, often topical but always worth a read!
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Sunday School
We’ve had a Sunday-school ever since we began. Right at the beginning, it was organised just for the children of the church. But for many years, we’ve made it our goal to draw in children from unchurched families. And until recently, we have always had such youngsters coming in. The…
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Unanswered Prayer
2005 is at an end. For all of us this is a time for looking back. What have we learned over the past year? What work have we done for Christ? What mistakes have we made? What sins have shadowed our walk with God? What blessings am I most grateful for?…
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Church Anniversary
It was in autumn 1981 that a handful of folk began to meet in Edgeley, Cheadle Heath and Cheadle Hulme for worship, Bible-study and prayer. We had left a church that was evangelical in name but divided in doctrine and torn apart by conflicts of personality. We had no idea…
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Hymn Books
I’ve been thinking about hymnbooks. And I’m not the only one. Christians everywhere are discussing hymnbooks. In fact, they’re not just discussing hymnbooks. They’re having blazing rows about hymnbooks. Christians are leaving churches because of disagreements about hymnbooks. Churches are splitting in half because they can’t agree about hymnbooks. Pastors…
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Conservation? Environment? Ecology?
A couple of weeks ago, I went to the zoo – or rather, the ‘Wild Animal Park’, just outside Dalton in Cumbria. We were away on holiday in our ‘home-from-home’ in Haverigg. From there it’s three quarters of an hour’s drive to Dalton. So we decided to take Jesse and…
