Yearly Archives: 2014

  • Consistency

    After a four-week break from church nursing my wife I returned and preached. As I finished the sermon a woman member came to me and said “you have not changed you still look the same.” I said “thank you” and passed on and out of the sanctuary. I knew what she meant, and knew there…
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  • Consider (Part 2)

    The state of the heart must outweigh the conduct of the life; therefore John said “you have left your first love” [Rev 2:4] a gross sin indeed. Thus the sin of omission was recognised and revealed; often tribulation reveals the heart’s condition. There are common laws that suggest if we do one thing another will…
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  • Three Traits

    Patricia was a thankful person, in all ways and to all people. The day before she was admitted for a brain tumour operation I took her out for a meal at one of our favourite eating places. The following day after I had taken her to Charing Cross Hospital and settled her in ready for…
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  • Consider (Part 1)

    “In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: surely God has appointed the one as well as the other,” [Eccl 7:14]. This cry is applicable to most Christians, for “man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward” [Job 5:7]; cares can corrode us, fears dismay us and…
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  • Fireworks

    It’s New Year’s Day and I am awake; its 8:01 and I’m amazed, I normally wake between 4:00/5:00am and wonder why I didn’t today. I had watched the world fireworks until 12:10am, wished myself a happy new year and went to sleep. Australia had the best pyrotechnics, New Zealand the worst and Britain halfway between….
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