This coming Sunday is our Mission Sunday. Tonight we get to focus on mission as well. So John Perkins has sent us some videos for us to watch from All Nations College. So check out the teaching clips followed by a song at the end. I pray you will be bless by it.
[Read more…]Bright Hope For Tomorrow
It’s hard to plan at the moment isn’t it? What are your thoughts for the future at the moment? Can my plans still go ahead? What will happen after furlough? What am I going to do after school or university? When will we be able to meet again as a Church?
All those questions can be answered in part by Psalm 138:8 “The Lord will fulfil his purpose for me.” (CSB Translation)
[Read more…]Understanding Prayer (3)
This is the third in our series of devotions on ‘Prayer’ using articles written in 1981 by leading Christians of the time and published in a book entitled “My Path of Prayer”. Today we focus on a famous Welshman, Selwyn Hughes, the author for forty years of the Bible-reading notes ‘Every Day with Jesus’ and the founder of the Crusade for World Revival (CWR). A good deal of his time was spent in personal counselling and he was responsible for the training of Christian counsellors in CWR’s Institute in Christian Counselling. Of the contributors to “My Path of Prayer”, Selwyn Hughes is the only one I have met – when he came to Newtown during his ‘Why Revival Waits’ preaching tour.
[Read more…]Book Review – Wales to Wuhan
A recent S4C prgramme on Wuhan prompted my inquisitiveness. It referred to the Union Hospital where the first casualties of Covid-19 , both staff and the general public were treated . I was amazed at discovering that this particular hospital as well as possibly 10 others was founded by a Welsh missionary called Griffith John in 1866. I had not heard of him before, but then found on our bookshelves a recent publication about ‘This Apostle to Central China ‘ written by Dr Noel Gibbard and published by the Bryntirion Press in 1998.
[Read more…]No Furlough for God’s Workers
One of the ways the government have tried to mitigate the effects of the pandemic is by introducing the furlough scheme.
I haven’t been part of it, but I imagine that, while in the short term if felt like extra holiday, as time has gone on it has been rather disorientating. People out of work find it a challenge to keep a routine, structure to their days. And what is the purpose to each day?
The Bible is clear that there is no furlough for God’s workers – and that is wonderful news for every Christian.
[Read more…]Being Ruthless Against Slavery
Since the protests about racism, and particularly with what happened in Bristol with the tearing down of Edward Colston’s statue, English and Welsh councils are ‘reviewing’ the statues in their local areas.
I don’t know your thoughts on this? If there is a statue where that individual had a history of racism or involvement in the slave trade, should it be torn down and thrown in the Bristol harbour (or somewhere closer!)?
I don’t need to know whether you agree with this or not, but I do hope you are concerned about the biggest slave owner in the history of the world. And I do hope we are even more ruthless to be rid of this slave owner than people were of Edward Colston’s statue.
[Read more…]“Be Kind to the Needy”
“Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honours God.” Proverbs 14v31
In the UK, and Western Europe in general, the worst seems to be past – at least for the time being – in terms of infections and deaths from Covid-19.
But turn on the news and you read that the World Health Organisation has just recorded the highest one-day increase in total cases. And you learn that the virus is now particularly impacting areas such as Central and South America, South Asia, and the Middle East.
[Read more…]“Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”
For you there may have been that one phone call, and life has never been the same. That one visit to the hospital and everything changed. You know the words ‘weeping may stay for the night’ are very true for you. But be assured Christian, ‘rejoicing comes in the morning’. This is what Psalm 30:5 says.
[Read more…]Book Review- “Is Jesus History?”
We have another book review. And today’s review looks at a life changing subject: The historical Jesus. Can we be confident that the Jesus that is in the Bible, really be the true historical Jesus?
Please read Geraint Parry’s review.
[Read more…]Book Review- ‘The Everyday Gospel’
While there is no substitute for reading the Bible, our book today looks at how the Gospel makes an impact in our ‘everyday’.
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