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Co-workers with God
This is the second of my lenten reflections on Knowing God (see the first post here). I’m not going to be blogging my way through every chapter, but only bits and pieces that strike me particularly. Well, I was especially struck when reading the chapter ‘Knowing and Being Known’: What happens is that the almighty Creator,
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Lenten Reflections: Knowing God
So, it’s Ash Wednesday – the first day of Lent. I’ve decided not to give anything up; rather, I’ve decided to give myself a task: I’ve decided to read Knowing God by Jim Packer. It’s sat on my shelf for a while now unread, and when I suggested it to someone else to read I
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The Mountain of Joy
What with the one thing and another, it’s been a bit doom and gloom here lately. Every so often I see or read something which really strikes me in a positive way, and I had that experience a couple of days ago. I was reading through the New Testament, preparing for a test next week.
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The Intolerance of Tolerance
I’ve just finished reading “The Intolerance of Tolerance” by Don Carson. It’s not his normal subject matter, but personally I found the application of his insight and intelligence to a topic like tolerance very helpful. It sparked off a train of thought in my mind about tolerance – as such, this is not a book
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Family Illness: Update
I mentioned about this time last year that my Mum was not well. Well, she’s been on chemo pretty much since then and, despite the side effects of the treatment, she’s been doing pretty well. However, in around November she started getting a bit unsteady on her feet. We initially thought it was another side-effect
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Rock of Ages and Justification
Justification is a word which I’ve heard quite a lot recently: we’ve been studying it with Mike Ovey in our Christian Doctrine classes. It’s great and humbling stuff, thinking through salvation and what God has done for us. With all this in mind, I went to church this morning where we sang “Rock of Ages”,
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Review: ‘Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert’
A week or so before Christmas, I read Carl Trueman’s review of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield’s book, “The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert“. I was so impressed by the review that I decided to buy the book (Kindle edition – even though I don’t have a Kindle. I know, I’m mad! I read it using
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Happy Christmas
I did say a few days ago I’d try and post again before Christmas. I was planning to write something intelligent and profound, but – well, actually, given it’s me you may be waiting a long time for that! I just wanted to post up a quick “Happy Christmas” to you. At our carol service
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Toynbee Strikes Again
I don’t usually write about such things on this blog, but this article by Polly Toynbee has got me quite annoyed. Her article is full of misinformation and slightly odd logic (something she’s been guilty of before, but we’ll leave that for the time being). It baffles me how someone who is so vitriolic can
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Merlin vs God
Have you been watching the BBC Series ‘Merlin’? Mrs Phil and I have been watching it virtually since the beginning, and very much enjoy it. It’s silly, it’s a bit of fun, but it has some great moments in it. Obviously the programme has its flaws… as someone pointed out the other day, for a