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Running the Church
In 2004 Paul Sinton-Hewitt began the Bushy Park Time Trial, a free, timed, 5k running event. This evolved into ‘parkrun’ and, at the latest count, there are parkruns... Read more -
Believe Jesus: Do Good Things
Hebrews 10:24-25:
Christianity is a community activity with a responsibility on all of us to help all of us! Moreover, there is meant to be some forcefulness in the... Read more -
Believe Jesus: Confidence
Hebrews 10:19-23
Confidence is important and a major theme of the letter to the Hebrews. Confidence gets things done, but as Christians we need to be clear that the... Read more -
Believe Jesus: A Perfect Sacrifice by a Perfect Person to...
Hebrews 10:1-18
Human beings are creatures that sacrifice. Even in cultures (like ours) which don’t offer obvious sacrifices to the gods, sacrifice is part of... Read more -
Believe Jesus: Blood
Hebrews 9:11-28
Every worldview identifies particular problems as being the most significant for humanity. They also usually offer a solution to this problem. However,... Read more -
Sexual Sentencing
I will be a minority voice here and am likely to stir up some aggravation by what I am about to say, which is that I felt a certain amount of disquiet about the doubling... Read more -
Believe Jesus: The Real Thing
Hebrews 9:1-10
The key question this passage poses is: How can we know we’re worshipping what we should be worshipping as we should be worshipping? Read more -
Welby and Wonga: A Book Recommendation
The new Archbishop of Canterbury is certainly making an impression. In a matter of months he has gone from being someone who, while well known in Anglican circles,... Read more -
When Active Leadership is Actively Wrong
In my personal Bible readings I recently got to 1 Samuel 13 and the account of Saul’s ‘unlawful sacrifice’. I’m familiar with the story, but on this occasion it... Read more -
Is God Anti-Gay?
The Same-Sex Marriage Act received Royal Assent last week and it is clear a seismic shift has taken place in societal views of sexuality. Every generation has particular... Read more - Page ‹ First < 41 42 43 44 45 > Last ›