Our God reigns!

30Oct09

BIll James said some challenging things in his sermon a couple of weeks ago:
If you truly understood the sovereignty of God you would never worry.
If you truly understood the love of God you would never be lonely.
We need to remember the sovereignty of Christ – not because we have nothing to fear, but because our [...]

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Emotions not welcome

22Oct09

British people don’t like to show their emotions. Stiff upper lip and all that. It’s still around in my generation – it seems the only time people feel free to show their true emotions in public is when completely drunk, because then at least they have an excuse. Unfortunately, this ’stiff upper lip’ culture is [...]

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Is it worth it?

01Oct09

This week we have been putting on lots of evangelistic events for the international students arriving at university. Sometimes when we put so much time and effort into events I can find myself lost in the busyness, and sometimes after it’s all over and I’m completely exhausted find myself thinking “Is it worth it?”. Sometimes [...]

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Tags: beautiful, effort, evangelism, evangelistic event, Jesus, phil wickham, resources, time, weakness