Letter from the Manse (152)
Thought provoking, biblical, often topical but always worth a read!
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Posessions tie us down
I’m in the process of moving my study up into the loft. No, this isn’t an attempt to put Proverbs 25:24 into practice. It’s simply a matter of room. When we knew that John was on the way, we realised that we would need extra space for our growing family. ...
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Do you expect to be sent to prison?
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...
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Morning Prayer
Many of us find that the best time to pray is first thing in the morning. Speaking personally, if I don’t get up early to pray, I find it almost impossible to set my heart to pray later in the day. We know that the Lord Jesus “rose in the...
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All Change
It seems that we’re constantly having to make changes these days. Most obviously there are changes in the people who attend the church. Long-established members move on and new faces appear. Even the arrival of lots of new babies brings change to the congregation – new challenges, new strains, new...
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Deacons
Every church needs reliable leaders. The New Testament teaches that in every church there should be two groups of leaders. Firstly, there should be elders (or pastors or overseers: these are all different labels for the same group of men). Elders are responsible for overseeing the spiritual life of the...
