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Lame Man
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-142 THE LAME MAN From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. The faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you. Acts 3:16. This story has some remarkable and instructive elements […]
How To Change Your World
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-137 (Expository Sermon) HOW TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD 2 Chronicles 32:1-22 by Rod Benson A desert nomad woke hungry in the middle of the night. He lit a candle and began eating dates from a bowl beside his bed. Taking a bite, he saw a worm in the date, so he threw […]
Praying For Leaders
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-141 Sunday 10 Aug 2003 Psalms on Sundays Reading: Psalm 20 – PRAYING FOR LEADERS ‘Praise be to the name of God … He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them’.(Dan 2:20,21) Verses 1-5 here form a communal prayer of intercession for the king. God is asked to […]
Freedom From Sin
Freedom from Sin (1 John) by Kim Thoday During much of the Cold War era, the Soviet propaganda machine constructed him as an icon of the evil and corrupting influence of Western culture. Yet to his millions of fans worldwide he was truly heroic, the king of rock and roll music; one of the few […]
No Place For Abuse
A Review by Jan Croucher At a general assembly of the World Evangelical Fellowship an African woman asked, ‘When will this organization address violence against women? There are men in this very room who abuse their wives.’ The response was a standing ovation! (p.8). A task force was formed to investigate the extent of the […]
The Purification Of Sinners
THE PURIFICATION OF SINNERS (expository) Numbers 5:1-10 In a British newspaper article titled “The diseases of modern civilisation,” journalist David Newnham writes, “Surrounded, then, by a maelstrom of disease, and veined internally with the rot of poverty, Britain increasing resembles a population under siege.” This melange of fervid metaphors is characteristic of current popular discussion […]
Psalms On Sundays: 145 – A Catalogue Of Praise
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-023 Sunday 02 Feb 2003 Reading: Psalm 145 – A CATALOGUE OF PRAISE Why is thanks (for what we have received) much more common than praise (for what God is and does)? This is the last of eight acrostic poems in the psalms, the verses of which (if we include verse 13b) […]
A Look At Hell
by Bill Hybels Text: Matthew 13:47-51 Topic: What hell is like and how to avoid it Big Idea: Hell is a spiritual reality that can be countered only by the Cross of Christ. Keywords: Hell; Death, spiritual; Salvation Introduction Matthew 13:47-51 Jesus uses a commercial fishing illustration to teach about the afterlife: (1) there will […]
The Delights Of God’s Law
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-135 Sunday 03 Aug 2003 Psalms on Sundays Reading: Psalm 19 – THE DELIGHTS OF GOD’S LAW Close your eyes and imagine your favourite view. Praise God for the awesome wonder of his creation. Psalm 19 is a poem of two halves. What connects them is the idea of regularities in God’s […]
No Fear
by Kim Thoday For some years now it has been fashionable for adolescent guys and girls to have the words: “No Fear” stuck to the back windscreens of their vehicles, in bold flowing font. Though sometimes the drivers of such vehicles look more like their parents. Well maybe its somehow more appropriate for the parents […]
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