Tag: church (18)
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Independence Day
Last Sunday was by any standard an eventful day for us. Independence Day. The day when the fellowship in Charlesworth was to be constituted as an independent church.
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What is Grace Baptist Church?
I’ve been asked that question a number of times recently. Of course, the answer I’ve given has varied according to who I’m speaking to, and why they’re asking. But if I were talking to somebody who really wanted to know, and who had the time and inclination to listen, I’d want…
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Thanksgiving Services
Let me start by saying thank you to everyone who worked so hard preparing for our thanksgiving services. At some point I ought to write a Nehemiah-style list of all the folk who worked to get the building into a fit state for us to welcome our guests. But I’ll…
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Why go to Church?
It’s quarter past seven on a Sunday evening. I’m at home. It doesn’t happen often. In fact, I doubt if there have been a dozen times in the last thirty years when I’ve not been in church on a Sunday evening. Of those nearly all have been down to illness or accident…
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A new “old” building
By the time you read this, the St John Ambulance HQ will be ours and twenty-two years waiting will be at an end. God has given us that building for our own. And it would have seemed strange to write a letter from the manse at this point and not…
