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What is a Christian?
Book, Podcast, Film, and Blog Reviews
Poetry
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John Chapter 3 - Windbreaks in Church? Part 2 of 2
The Eleventh Commandment: No windbreaks in church
Cubicle 2…or Navigating the 21st Century WC
Personal reflections on how complex life has become in the name of simplicity
Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles – foundations of the Christian faith
The three feasts of Israel - Part I
Book Review: The Magnificent Moustache & Other Stories
When I read through the five stories, I asked myself ‘Would I have read these to my children when they were younger?’ And the answer is a resounding Yes!
Baptism – beyond the controversy Part IV
‘By one Spirit we were all baptised into one body’ 1 Cor 12 v 12. The gospel repairs the broken relationship between man and God…we are reconciled not just with God but with each other…if we allow the Spirit to baptise us into one body. Is this more difficult for us in the West which prides itself on the freedom of the individual?
Baptism – beyond the controversy Part III
When John the Baptist was preaching, he prophesied: ‘I baptise you with water, but there is coming One who will baptise you with Holy Spirit and with fire’ Mat 4v11, Mk 1v 8, Luke 3 v 16, John 1 v 33
Baptism – getting beyond the controversy Part II
In the second of four blogs on Baptism - getting beyond the controversy we continue with Part II: In his letter to the Romans, Paul writes about being ‘baptised into Christ Jesus’. The passage in Romans 6 is often used to explain the imagery of water baptism but what did Paul really have in mind?