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• Sandy Grant
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• 4 November 2015

Links from Sandy Grant on the reformation; the installation of a new bishop; the relationship between Christianity and words; thanking God for your normal, boring life; the last of the confessions of an angry pastor; and Os Guinness about Christian disagreement and the public square.

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• Timothy Raymond
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• 3 November 2015

We don’t like to memorize stuff. We find it dull, painful, and pointless. Most of us would rather go to the dentist than spend 15 minutes working on memorizing something. Honestly, did any of you enjoy learning the times-tables in school? It’s rather laborious work.

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• Hannah Ploegstra
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• 2 November 2015

The New Testament unanimously presents the doctrine of election as a glad and glorious reality of the gospel. The staggering news that God has loved Christ’s people from before the foundation of the world, creating us for mercy, blessing and joy, offers much-needed confidence and security as we walk by faith in the weakness of the flesh.

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• Jean Williams
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• 30 October 2015

Jean Williams takes a look at a book that is helpful to both men and women for improving the way that they read and understand the Bible.

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• Dave Rogers
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• 29 October 2015

So I had long service leave for the first time this year. “How did that happen?” I asked myself, before hurtling back to reality as I remembered first my years of single ministry, rapidly followed by a church plant, getting married, becoming a rector, welcoming two small people into our world, leading a growing church, and dealing with the reality of struggling marriages and bodies ravaged by cancer.

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• Sandy Grant
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• 28 October 2015

This week Sandy Grant shares opinions on opinions, motives, anger, degrees of sin, puppetry, and ways to engage with gamblers.

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• Stephen Liggins
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• 27 October 2015

I’ve just ticked something off on my hypothetical bucket list! A bucket list, for those who don’t know, is an inventory of things that someone decides that they want to do before they die (i.e. “kick the bucket”).

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• Tim Grant
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• 26 October 2015

So you’ve decided to forgo the straight and narrow and teach things that are… well… not strictly speaking true. It makes sense; after all, surely we’re all a little bored by the same Christian message year after year, millennia after millennia.

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• John McClean
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• 23 October 2015

In the last post I argued that the best overall description of the Bible is the covenant book. The primary emphasis of the image is that the Bible is God’s word for us, his people. When we read it we are not eavesdropping on a message meant for someone else. We aren’t overreaching ourselves to know a God who is beyond us. It is meant for us, to sustain our relationship with God.

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• Ian Carmichael
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• 22 October 2015

Confession time. When it comes to church, I’m a poor singer. I don’t mean that I am unenthusiastic. No, I enjoy singing a lot, and (although I haven’t asked around) I suspect my brothers and sisters at Castle Cove Anglican Church would say that my volume is, if nothing else, suggestive of enthusiasm.

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