Our local radio station KLFM’s secret sound has finally been won at £2790. What we heard on air, every day for months, was only part of the story, part of the whole sound, which made it very hard to guess. KLFM’s hard secret sound! There were hundreds of attempts at answering, all wildly wrong. It […]
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I’m so excited, this just arrived from ICMBooks Direct who trade on Amazon and with their own website (Their Amazon store is often slightly cheaper). “The Gospel According to John” by D.A. Carson is the definitive commentary on John. I’m looking forward to spending the first half of next year digging into John at The […]
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I’m pretty sure God has called people to move to King’s Lynn, perhaps you are one of them, but you are not sure why. Well done for obeying God – Abraham did the same in Gen 12. You are not alone either! The first time I drove under the South Gate was in 2006. God […]
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Ouch! I’m reading a book “The art of Neighbouring” where the authors are writing about putting loving your neighbour into real practice. All very innocuous and nice until I got to page 36, where they have what is jokingly called the chart of shame. The idea is to write a little a bit about the […]
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One of God’s promises that has sustained me over the last 12 years planting churches is Phil 1:6 “And I am sure of this that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” What God begins, He carries on, what He carries on He […]
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I bought “How to build a magnetic Church” because I have quoted it often when talking about the importance of visiting visitors. When laypersons make 15 minute visits to the homes of first time Sunday visitors within 36 hours 85% of them retun the following week. Make this home visit within 72 hours and 60 […]
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Great article from Tim Challies about how the Old Testament is saturated with Christ Here’s a sample to whet your appetite… Israel needed a tabernacle and temple because God had not yet come in the person of Jesus Christ to make his dwelling among man… Israel needed a land of its own, an actual land, […]
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Saw this on Ed Stetzer’s morning round up by Bob Roberts Jr. 1. Pray. A lot. 2. Journal as much as you can. 3. Give up on the idea of Jesus bailing you out of the tough times. 4. Lose the idea that you’re Jesus. You’re not. 5. You have one boss: Jesus. 6. Be […]
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Last weekend I was speaking at a church weekend in the fantastic Newfrontiers Church in Berkel, Netherlands. Berkel is a small town just north of Rotterdam I’d been asked to come and stirred the church evangelistically through envisioning and practical training. So it was a lot of preparation, prayer and excitement that I arrived into […]
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I was struck in my reading of Mark’s gospel over the last few weeks that “For all the strong protestations of loyalty by the men (14:31) at the end it was the women who saw it through”. Ouch! William Booth who founded the Salvation army once said that his best men are the women. Peter, […]
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