#29 Being Distinctive

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Passage: Exodus 19:1-8 Whenever I hear a certain boy’s name from my secondary school (I mustn’t give his name), I immediately think of the same thing- short trousers! You see this boy stood out on … Read More

#28 Help in Difficult Times

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Passage: Psalm 121 Tuesday 24th March 2020 is etched on many people’s minds and written in my diary. Why? It’s when lockdown began in the UK. It’s hard to believe that is exactly six months … Read More

#27 When the Dream becomes a Nightmare

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Passage: Luke 12:13-21 Luke chapter 12 begins with many thousands listening to Jesus teach. Then someone in the crowd asks Jesus to do something for him- “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with … Read More

#26 All You Need is Love!

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Passage: Luke 10:25-37 Love has been sung about, written about and dreamt about probably more than any other subject, and yet the one thing that is so obviously missing in our increasingly divided world is … Read More

#25 Regaining Focus

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Passage: 2 Timothy 4:1-8 September is usually the restart for many things, new schools, college, university, your first job, a new job. However, September 2020 will be remembered as a restart month like no other … Read More

#24 Right with God!

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Passage: Romans 3:20-26 All of us know the painful reality of relationships breaking down. It starts in the school playground when your ‘best friend’ won’t talk to you anymore; the teenage years see relationships see-saw … Read More

#23 Stirred But Not Shaken

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Passage: Psalm 16 “You’re focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution.” Those were the words of the genius Arthur Mendelson in the film Patch Adams starring the … Read More

#22 Love Never Fails

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Passage – 1 Corinthians 13 Some of us will remember Prime Minister Tony Blair reading this great passage from 1 Corinthians at the funeral of Princess Diana on the 6th Sept 1997 in Westminster Abbey. … Read More

#21 Don’t Give Up!

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Passage – Revelation 21:1-22:6 This week we’re fast forwarding to the very end of time. God’s judgment has occurred and all who were opposed to God have been thrown into the Lake of Fire (the … Read More

#20 Meaningless, Meaningless

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Passage – Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 I, like many of you, was appalled by the violent death of young PC Andrew Harper at the hands of three teenagers caught stealing a quad bike in Berkshire. A husband … Read More