Soli Deo gloria – by Dave Hall
China China has been more in the news this year than for many years and not for popular reason. As far as is known this virus probably started in China and certainly many now speak in less than favourable terms about the Chinese regime in consequence. Apart from this though Christians in China very much […]
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I thought that I might, for a couple of weeks or so, focus these posts on other countries for which we might focus some prayer. In doing this I will choose countries where there is either persecution of Christians, no significant indigenous church, or extreme poverty. I will reference my sources but will use mainly […]
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The days that you have. I was talking to a man the other day (no-one that you would know) and he made the comment that he hoped this lockdown would end soon otherwise he reckoned there would be mass civil disobedience and hinted that he would be at the centre of it. The reason he […]
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The wonder of nature If, like me, you love nature and all things created then you’ll need no encouragement to value it; but let’s be honest for those who are still at work or have a family to be busy with it is very easy to lose sight of the wonder of all that God […]
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Your mental well-beingFor some reason it always seems easier to talk about and admit to having physical problems than it does to having mental problems. I guess that despite all of our medical awareness and improved understanding of mental health issues, many of us still find it difficult to identify with what another is going […]
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Your own body and healthIf like me, you are well into the second half of your life (I know…I’m actually into the last 1/3) then almost certainly you can look back to times when you were fitter, stronger, faster. Sue always jokes that whenever she asks me now how long a job will take she […]
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Prayers of brothers and sistersWe’ve looked at prayer, meaning our prayers, but how much do we value the prayers of our brothers and sisters for us? I expect that we’d find that we value them in proportion to the degree that we believe in the power of prayer. Surely if we really believe that prayer […]
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The sufficiency of God’s grace.Isn’t it easy to praise God for all He does when times are good and then struggle when times are hard? I guess that was very much Paul’s experience when he pleaded with the Lord three times to remove the “thorn” from his side (we have no idea what that ‘thorn’ […]
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Holy Spirit Jesus promised His disciples that it was for their good that He should go away and the main reason He gave was that then Holy Spirit would come in a far greater way than He had previously: Joh 16:7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go […]
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AdoptionI’m not going through these in order of importance or this would have come sooner, I wanted to deal with meditation and fasting for they are very practical things that we can get our teeth into and are often neglected; adoption is a reality that we can contribute nothing to – we simply are adopted! […]
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