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Redundant prayer?

  • 1 March 2009

The Church of England in the UK has released a prayer for those who have been made redundant (along with other prayers for people affected in other ways by the financial crisis).[1. http://www.cofe.anglican.org/prayers]. It has been fascinating to hear various clergy on the radio here in the UK answer the question

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Bible resistance

  • Lionel Windsor
  • 1 March 2009

This is a public health warning for the attention of all those involved in the cure of souls. A particularly insidious threat to spiritual wellbeing has been identified, and we need your help to eradicate it. The phenomenon has been dubbed ‘Bible resistance’. Those most at risk are Christians who

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Do not judge!

  • 1 March 2009

What do you think is the best known verse in the Bible? Without a second thought, most of us would say John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life”. Almost every Christian

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The obedience of faith

  • Christopher Ash
  • 1 February 2009

Evangelism is a call to faith, but what exactly is faith? Following on from his article on justification by faith in Briefing #352 (January 2008), Christopher Ash investigates. ~

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Review: "Preach the Word: Essays on expository preaching"

  • Nigel Fortescue
  • 1 February 2009

Preach the Word: Essays on expository preaching: In honor of R Kent Hughes Edited by Leland Ryken and Todd Wilson Crossway, Wheaton, 2007, 304pp. I find preaching to be an enormously heartbreaking experience: just when you think you know what a passage means, it is always more complicated than

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Guilt-edged pages?

  • 1 February 2009

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Job and prayer

  • 1 February 2009

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A biblical theology of response

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 February 2009

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Making trainees of all people

  • 1 February 2009

We all know that training is a good thing—that it’s vital to the health of the church. At least, that’s what we’re constantly told. So why is it so important? And what is training anyway? Training is vital for two reasons. Firstly, it’s important because the gospel is important.

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