Letter from the Manse (152)
Thought provoking, biblical, often topical but always worth a read!
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Women’s ministries
I received an email last week from a much respected friend. He wanted my opinion about the role of women in the church. Or more particularly, the role of women in the meetings of the church. He had been asked to lead a discussion for a church that’s been wrestling...
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The Calendar: a gift to you from God
Another year... it seems to me to be a very healthy thing for us as Christians to set times to regularly review what has gone before, to make plans and to set aims for what lies ahead.
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Urban Myths
For thirty-one years I’ve preached week by week from the NIV. I’m expecting to do that for the last time on the Lord’s Day, 30th December. And then, the following Sunday, the NIVs will be packed away and we’ll be reading together from the ESV.
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Koinonia
I've just returned from our first ever international study week! For five days I’ve sat with eight (occasionally nine) men around a table in a church building in Wetzlar, Germany. And together we’ve worked at understanding Philippians.
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An evangelical church?
We call ourselves an evangelical church. No, you won’t find that word on our notice-board, but we’ve always been happy to identify ourselves in that way...
