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The house of mourning

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:17:16 +0000

One Bible verse has been often in my mind over the past couple of weeks. Ecclesiastes chapter 7 vs 4: “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart”.

Illness

admin — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:37:10 +0000

I’m sitting in bed, off sick from work with a cough and cold on my chest (no need for sympathy – I wrote this a couple of months back now). And it’s making me think about illness. Some of us have a continuous struggle with illness every day of our lives. Most of us are [...]

Obadiah Holmes’s Will

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:18:09 +0000

These are to signify that I Obadiah Holmes of Newport, Rhode Island being at present through the goodness and mercy of my God of sound memory and being by daily intimation put in mind of the frailty and uncertainty of this present life, do therefore for settling my estate in this world which it hath [...]

Do you expect to be sent to prison?

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 05:51:29 +0000

Do you expect to be sent to prison? For a long time, I’ve accepted the fact that I’m likely to serve a jail sentence at some point. What for? For preaching the Bible. And for trying to follow what it says. How close are we to the situation where Christians in the UK will be [...]

The suffering Church

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 07:03:43 +0000

Are you enjoying our Sunday evening studies in the book of Revelation? I doubt it. I hope we’re finding the studies mind-stretching, edifying, even exciting. But hardly enjoyable. Many of the things John sees in his vision are shocking, disturbing, at times terrifying. One of the most constant themes in the book of Revelation is [...]

Songs for the Day & Songs in the Night

admin — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:12:52 +0000

Psalms for a christian in joy and sadness. In the day and night of the Christian life.