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Things to value in desperate times – part 4

Posted on April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 by Pastor Dave

The fourth thing I want to suggest is Fasting. Like meditation, fasting often gets a bad press amongst Christians, indeed many Christians never fast. And yet the Bible speaks much about it, and certainly Jesus Himself expected His disciples to fast when He said to them: Mat_6:16-17 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy […]

Things to value in desperate times – part 3

Posted on April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 by Pastor Dave

The Bible, prayer, and now… if I’m not careful I will simply be repeating what I’ve said in earlier posts so I’ll leave Christian Fellowship, going to church etc which we certainly should be valuing more and more the longer we are deprived of them, and stick with those things that we can fully enjoy […]

Things to value in desperate times – part 2

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by Pastor Dave

So what comes after the Bible? Surely it has to be prayer. Where on earth (literally) would we be without prayer? One of the biggest losses during lockdown is the freedom to speak to who you want, when you want. Those who used to enjoy family and friends regularly coming into their homes can no […]

Things to value in desperate times – part 1

Posted on April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 by Pastor Dave

I want over the next few posts to look briefly at things that we, as Christians, should really value in times such as these. Some will be very obvious, some probably less so, but I want to start with the most obvious but most necessary. And I would start with God’s Word: the Bible. Why […]

So…is God being fair? – part 3

Posted on April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 by Pastor Dave

So God is not being “fair”. He is actually being far more merciful than that. But there is much more that we can and need to say in answer to this question. Firstly, there is the issue of rights. We live in a day when so much is said about our rights. Indeed one of […]

So…is God being fair? – part 2

Posted on April 15, 2020April 15, 2020 by Pastor Dave

I want to start by looking at what this question means. The Bible uses many words in describing God’s dealings with man, but it never uses the word fair. I think it is often used when people question God’s actions simply because they find it a more useful word (they can make it mean what […]

So..is God being fair?

Posted on April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 by Pastor Dave

Having spent many posts on what God is saying through this to the Christian, and now one post on what God is saying through this to the non-Christian, I know that in many minds the question will arise from the latter “but is that fair?” And I want over the next couple of posts to […]

So what is God saying? – part 7

Posted on April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 by Pastor Dave

We’ve looked at many things God is saying to the Christian in these days but what about the non-Christian? Is God speaking through these events to those who do not know Him? I promised in an earlier blog that we’d come back to Revelation chapter 16 in due time and I’d like to turn there […]

1 Cor 15:4a “That He was buried”

Posted on April 11, 2020April 11, 2020 by Pastor Dave

As Christians we are hopefully very familiar with what happened on Good Friday and likewise with the events of Easter Sunday; but what about what happened on the Saturday in between? I love creedal statements that down through the centuries have helped Christians to understand, remember and live by the essential truths of the gospel. […]

Good Friday post

Posted on April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 by Pastor Dave

Well, this most definitely ranks as the strangest Good Friday I have ever spent (I managed to not be in the Merchant Navy for a Good Friday otherwise that might well have surpassed it!). No going to church, no meeting with brothers and sisters in Christ, no singing hymns of praise in the company of […]