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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Aiming to worship creator not creation

06Jan09

Martin Luther explained that if we keep the first two of the ten commandments
“You shall have no other gods before  me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.  You shall not bow down to them or worship [...]

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The Shack

05Jan09

I haven’t actually read this book in it’s entirety, but I’ve read enough for it to worry me. What worries me most is that many Christians are buying copies of this book in bulk and giving it to their non-Christian friends in the hope it will interest them in Christianity and maybe lead them to [...]

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