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Christian Life Church: UK

Drop The Platitudes!

It is not enough to say that people should not worry because God is in charge, because – quite frankly – looking at the world, God doesn’t actually seem to be in charge at all.

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Christian Life

Life in the Bubble

When we live in a bubble we become focussed on our own needs and experiences and lose sight of the wider world.

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Christian Life

Things Home Mission Can Learn: Pray

It would be easy – very easy – for a Western rationalist to dismiss all of this. I’m a biologist, I know what causes diseases!

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Christian Life

How Not To Give Away Your Faith

One of the reasons why I’ll never be a good personal evangelist…

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Christian Life Church: World

Cruciform Mission

Mission is about proclaiming the reality of the cross in word and deed; but more than that, it is lived out in the shadow of the cross.

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Christian Life

Some Things Just Aren’t Clear

There are a number of conclusions that you can draw from these incidents; but the idea that the Holy Spirit always guides in a clear and unambiguous fashion is not one of them!

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Christian Life

God is Bigger than That

We love to sing about how big and powerful God is, but when it comes to practical issues we, all too often, limit God’s ability to do things. We make ourselves, our choices and our abilities the centre of the universe. On balance; that’s a mistake!

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Christian Life

Connections

Some thoughts on why Barnabas made two trips to Cyprus.

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Christian Life

The Sharing Trinity

This may just be the most profound passage in the Bible on the subject of mission.

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Christian Life

The Cross is Ridiculous

As Christians on mission, we are faced with a choice. We can either play down the message of the cross and make it less offensive or we can go the uncomfortable route of talking about judgement and forgiveness.