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  • Europe: Culture, Conferences & Referendums image

    Europe: Culture, Conferences & Referendums

    Matthew Hosier  |  Fri 29 April 2016   Take 300 church leaders from thirty European nations, put them together in a hotel near Athens, stir with a liberal dose of great teaching, bring to the boil with... Read more
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    Living Dangerously

    Matthew Hosier  |  Tue 19 April 2016   Last week I booked a flight to Beirut for my 18 year-old daughter. She’s going to Lebanon in July to work with a charity looking after children displaced by the... Read more
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    A Badge of Honour

    Matthew Hosier  |  Tue 12 April 2016   Last Sunday we launched a new congregation of Gateway church. We have purchased and renovated what was a Methodist church building, and our local paper, the Bournemouth... Read more
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    Computing the Imputing

    Matthew Hosier  |  Mon 4 April 2016   It’s quite some time now since the arguments swirling around NT Wright’s definition of justification and imputation were at their hottest. But for a while it was... Read more
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    Philippians in 1,000 Words

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 31 March 2016   We're just coming to the end of a teaching series on Paul's letter to the Philippians at Gateway, and as I've previously done with Romans, I've found it helpful to... Read more
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    Happy Monday!

    Matthew Hosier  |  Mon 28 March 2016   It is Easter Monday - a day to rejoice! But, oh, how hard it is for modern man to be happy. Roger Scruton puts his finger on why this is so, and identifies the solution: Read more
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    Seven Stanzas at Easter

    Matthew Hosier  |  Sat 26 March 2016   By John Updike Read more
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    Easter

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 24 March 2016   The Sunday before last I was standing on the starting line of the Barcelona marathon, along with 16,000 plus other runners. When I say the starting line, what I really... Read more
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    Easy Email

    Matthew Hosier  |  Wed 23 March 2016   OK, nothing to do with theology, this one, but a practical tip. Many people are drowning in emails, and don’t know how to get on top of them, but most days I manage to... Read more
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    IDS and Evangelical Toxicity

    Matthew Hosier  |  Mon 21 March 2016   The spin machine is in overdrive claiming that Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation from the cabinet is part of a political plot to benefit the Brexit campaign. I’m more... Read more