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What is a Christian?
Book, Podcast, Film, and Blog Reviews
Poetry
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John the Baptist – a reset for 2026 Part 3 (i) baptism of fire (ii) judgement here and now
Imagine carrying a gold bar in your pocket…as Christian believers we carry the baptism of the Spirit and fire, if we gave received what John prophesied
John the Baptist – a reset for 2026 Part 2 - Baptism in the Spirit
At the end of my piece is a YouTube testimony of a Sountern Baptist pastor who received the baptism in the Spirit, as prophesied by John the Baptist, many years after believing. It transformed his ministry.
Limits to Free Speech and the Case of Alaa Abd el-Fatah
Are there limits to free speech and rights of citizenship?
Master’s in Creative Writing Update: 11.30 on Thursday 11th December.
Work, Rest, and Play
Wazzock On the First Tee
For those of a golfing frame of mind…and who might remember plus fours or even plus twos? Wazzocks, of course, inhabit the whole of the known Universe…or Cornwall
The Arithmetic of a Dead Tree
Just north of Tiverton a field is interrupted by a dead tree, white dead
Alpha and Omega….and the gate-crashers called prophets
Prophets - the gate-crashers of spiritual world
Mustard on Lamb?
Are we all rebels at heart? I’ll have mustard with almost anything, the measure of my revolution
Psalm 112 – Part iv
Psalm 112 seems to be unrealistic but facing real life, head on…like us?